CHAPTER SIX
By 8.00pm, they’d exhausted the local hospitals, and Seb had taken Noah and Tom off to bed. He would remain at the guesthouse on sentry duty.
Sam half-wished she could trade places with him when the girls kicked up a stink – they were older and thought they should be allowed to help with the second search. And if they joined in, Kat could too. Their arguments fell flat and they suddenly capitulated, saying they wanted to go to bed too, which made Sam suspicious.
She pulled Kat and Elke aside and whispered, ‘You’ll need to keep a close eye on them. We can’t have more missing kids.’
Kat agreed, though still grumpy at being left out. The housekeeper merely nodded and settled down on a chair in the hallway between the girls’ bedrooms, knitting a miniature striped jumper.
Lunny
