Thomas Evans. Her great-grandfather. Despite the neat handwriting his words were passionate – he’d clearly been a man of ideas, maybe a minister or a teacher. These books weren’t worthless; they were a treasure. They were a window into the mind of a man whose blood ran in her own veins.
As Justine moved them to her pile of things to keep, she saw a yellowed envelope wedged between the pages of one of the Kant books. She pulled it from its place and opened it to find a series of newspaper clippings from the Williamsburg Gazette.
The first was dated September 3, 1935, its headline large and urgent:
williamsburg girl disappears
Emily Evans, 6, daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Evans of Williamsburg, was reported missing from her family’s summer home at Stillwater Lake this past Sunday.
The
