THIRTY
INTERROGATION, DISBELIEF, AND ARRAIGNMENT
After managing to persuade Jack to identify himself and provide them with his home address, the police arranged for the man’s parents to be informed of his arrest. A worried and appalled Tom Reid contacted Holland and informed him that he and his wife would arrive in Brighton the next day.
Meanwhile, under a series of intense interrogations over the next twenty-four hours, Jack Reid revealed his amazing, (though preposterous, so the police believed) story. He told of his receiving the strange package bequeathed by his Uncle, Robert Cavendish, on his eighteenth birthday, and of how the journal that he found contained within that package and the letters from his uncle and those of his ancestors that accompanied the journal proved beyond a s
