ELEVEN
COUSIN MARK
Tom Reid was at a total loss. All his efforts to find young Jack had proved fruitless. The private detective he’d hired had gone through the motions, but Tom felt that the man had never held out much hope of finding Jack.
Consequently, Tom had paid out a rather exorbitant sum of money to cover the man’s expenses, for absolutely no reward.
“But he can’t just have disappeared into thin air, Tom,” Jennifer Reid said as she sat imploring her husband to do something, anything, in terms of a greater effort in finding their son.
“I’ve told you, Jen, the best thing we can do for Jack now is to report him as a missing person to the police. They’re the best equipped to deal with something like this.”
“No way, Tom! No police and that’s final. If we tell them that Jack has a h
