That night another kid went missing; a boy Penny remembered very vaguely from the magic show in the park. This time there was a bit of good news to balance out the bad.
Sheriff Price had a suspect in custody, and expected to find the missing kids soon.
The gossip was unspecific, and Penny went through the day in a daze of confused anticipation; wanting to believe they had managed to catch The Birdman, but not quite able to. She just could not imagine some small town sheriff, elected more because of family influence than any flair for crime fighting according to Susan, stopping such an exotic and frightening foe.
That evening they watched the television, channel surfing from one news program to the next, hoping for some scrap of information. There was nothing beyond vague references at f
