The Lost Children by Carolyn Cohagan

Author:Carolyn Cohagan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Published: 2010-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-NINE

A clamor came from the Jarvis home. Alma was extremely agitated, cursing under her breath as she prepared dinner. She had been yelling for more than an hour. Bruce sat at the table, resigned to listening to his wife until she ran out of steam.

“And now the whole town knows that we let her get away! You were asked to do one thing, ONE THING, and you couldn’t do it. All you had to do was keep an eye on her. How hard could it be? She had enough drugs in her to incapacitate three people! But oh no, it’s too much to ask Bruce Jarvis to keep a sleepy little girl from running away. We almost had something good happen—a little respect within the community! Can’t you do anything right?”

“I just went to fetch some fertilizer,” he protested.

“More like you were napping behind the barn!”

“I was gone only a second.”

Alma spat, “Just like you were gone only a second when they took Sarah?”

It took Bruce a moment to believe what he’d heard. “What are you saying?”

“I think you know.”

“They came in the night . . . we never even saw them . . .”

“You should have protected her! You were her father!”

Bruce’s head sagged at the truth of her words. “I thought we were talking about Josephine.”

“Get out. Just go. I can’t look at you anymore.”

“You don’t mean that . . . you’re just upset. We let the girl get away. So what? What can anyone do? What more can they take from us?”

Alma looked at him with a cold heart and told him to gather his things.

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