New Start to Life
The doctor sat down next to Tom’s mother.
“Well, Joan, I have had a word with the police, and they agree with me that she will be better off with you than in state custody. I am sure that they will do their best to trace her parents, if only to arrest them for child abuse. She is one very undernourished girl.”
Joan looked at the doctor.
“Thank you, Donald, but how was the examination? And who do you think she is?”
Donald was not only Joan’s doctor but had also been a friend of the family for many years, and he knew Joan would not let him get away until he had told her everything that he had found out.
“All right, Joan. She is a bit of a mystery, but so far, this is what we have and what I will be telling the police, who, incidentally, are at this moment searching th
