He shook his head.
They were wrong.
She read the next report.
Browse Reference
Then another.
Each doctor had described his worsening hearing as a consequence of the original injury.
But none could explain why the inflammation repeatedly returned.
Rosalie found a newspaper article.
LOCAL
BOY NEARLY KILLED IN RANCH ACCIDENT
The story said Gideon’s father had discovered him unconscious near the northern ridge.
His father had died three months later.
Accident.
That was what the article said.
Rosalie looked up.
“Was it?”
Gideon slowly shook his head.
He wrote:
My father knew something.
Rosalie waited.
He told me never to trust Dr.
Vale.
The name meant something.
Rosalie remembered it.
Dr.
Edwin Vale.
The only physician who had treated Gideon regularly as a child.
She read another letter.
This one was written by Gideon’s father.
The ink was faded.
If anything happens to me, the evidence is hidden beneath the old mill.
← Previous Page
Next Page →
