Lost by Samantha Price

Author:Samantha Price [Price, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samantha Price

Elsa-May and Ettie sat next to Ava at the library as their young friend scrolled through the search items on the Internet. They started with the place where Earl used to work.

“Now, what if Earl allowed someone he knew at work to adopt the baby?”

“It would have to be the owner, or one of the bosses because it was someone who was wealthy,” Ava said.

“Unless they won the lottery,” Elsa-May said.

Ettie stared at Elsa-May and blinked a couple of times. “Let’s just do the broad brush stroke first, before we start filling in around the corners.”

“Okay, look at the bosses of Parton Industries, Ava,” Elsa-May said.

“Ah, good memory,” Ettie said.

“Denke.”

Ava entered the words in the search bar. “It says here the founding director of Parton Industries is a man called Harold Appleby.”

“Yes, that’s him. And what does Parton Industries do?” Elsa-May asked.

After a few seconds, and more tapping of the keys, Ava said, “They’re glass manufacturers.”

“That’s right.”

Ava turned around and stared at Elsa-May. “The point of the Internet is to look up things you don’t know.”

“I know.” Elsa-May looked at Ettie. “What shall we have Ava find out?”

“Earl was working in glass, as we know, so what you’ve found out is that we have our facts right, Ava. I’m wondering if Earl gave Appleby the baby? Mrs. Quinn mentioned a falling out between Earl and his boss. Perhaps Earl wanted to confront him face-to-face?”

“It’s possible, I suppose. Can you bring up a picture of Harold Appleby, Ava?”

A few seconds later, there were pictures of Harold Appleby on the screen. “Oh, he’s old,” Ava said. “For some reason I expected him to be younger.”

“If I’m right, he adopted Earl’s daughter many years ago and everyone was younger back then. But he does look old. How old would you say he looks, Elsa-May?” Ettie asked.

“Mid sixties to early seventies.”

“See if you can find out if he’s got children, Ava.”

After tapping on the keys, Ava said, “He’s divorced and has two children, he was divorced just over ten years ago.”

“Just before Earl was killed.” Ettie tapped a bony finger on her chin. “What are the children’s names?”

Ava scrolled through Facebook pages and then other social media accounts. “No, I can’t find anything about them. That’s all I can find, I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be sorry at all, Ava.”

“Jah, you’ve done a great job,” Ettie said.

“We’ll walk to the station from here thanks, Ava. You go home. I think we might be there for quite some time.”

“You think he’ll lock us up?” Ettie asked about Kelly.

“He’ll certainly feel like it once he finds out Gertie’s missing and we kept it from him.”

Ettie nodded.

“I can wait. It’s okay,” Ava said.

“Nee, we wouldn’t want you to be late getting home and have Jeremiah asking questions.”

“That’s true, and he would.”

Ettie and Elsa-May walked out of the library and headed to the police station while the midday sun warmed their skin.

“What a lovely day,” Ettie said.

“I hope it stays that way.”

“I hope we did the right thing not telling him yet that she was missing.

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