in a castle view hotel room her mother was in an agony of terror ; her father was on a delta flight from boston to portland to join quilla and his son ; at the castle county state police barracks , which had been designated rally point patricia , search-parties very much like the ones the lost girl had imagined were coming back in after their first fruitless sallies ; outside the barracks , newsvans from three tv stations in portland and two in portsmouth were parked ; three dozen experienced woods-men ( and some were accompanied by dogs ) remained in the forests of motton and the three unincorporated townships which stretched off toward new hampshire 's chimney : tr-90 , tr-100 , and tr-110 .