“I believe so.” We both sat and stared at the table for a few moments as all this sank in. I couldn’t help but wonder if there was more.
I took another deep breath and said, “Okay, so here’s another piece of this puzzle that we need to figure out. For some reason, Beazley comes to own Elijah’s sister, Emily, when she’s just a tiny baby and Emily is Anne’s daughter.”
Santiago frowned and asked me to explain, so I told him what Ms. Nicholas and I had found in the 1852 inventory and about the draft of Nicholas The Fourth’s will.
“This is all getting so complicated,” he said and then took a long swig of his coffee. “But I think we need to assume that Earnestine Greene figured at least some of this out.”
“More than just that there was a burial ground under their manse?”
He shrugged. “Maybe
