I spent the day with my cousin, learning about all the things that had happened since I left. My parents never stopped looking for me, a lot of the family’s fortune had been spent on hiring private investigators to help aid the family when the police had been forced to give up. One of these investigators had managed to break down Miss Thompson and ten years after I left, she finally came clean.
She was fired, but the police could not charge her with anything. My family continued searching, now convinced that I must still be alive out there. My grandmother and father died of tuberculosis during that time, but my mother lived long enough to watch our family survive through world war one.
“What about my sisters?” I asked. “What happened to them?”
“My mother had two more sons after me, but
