A Wild Ghost Chase (2012)
“which he said would have been “Jaci” in his language. She was tall and strong, which was not terribly surprising—Antinanco was tall for his age and probably would have been a large man if he had grown—but had a warm and loving heart. She had been in this area for the summer, roughly two hundred and forty years ago.
It wasn’t, as they say in the detective novels, much to go on.
What was unusual (and the unusual is always helpful in an investigation) was that the boy said his mother’s hai...r had not been the dark color of so many native North Americans. Her hair, Antinanco insisted, was red.
Once I had (reluctantly) agreed to look into—that was how I put it—the whereabouts of Antinanco’s mother, I insisted that Melissa go back up to her room and refused to discuss the matter again until morning. The little native boy said he had a place that he went to at night, one that made him feel safe, and promised at my insistence that he would check in every day for progress reports.MoreLess
It wasn’t, as they say in the detective novels, much to go on.
What was unusual (and the unusual is always helpful in an investigation) was that the boy said his mother’s hai...r had not been the dark color of so many native North Americans. Her hair, Antinanco insisted, was red.
Once I had (reluctantly) agreed to look into—that was how I put it—the whereabouts of Antinanco’s mother, I insisted that Melissa go back up to her room and refused to discuss the matter again until morning. The little native boy said he had a place that he went to at night, one that made him feel safe, and promised at my insistence that he would check in every day for progress reports.MoreLess
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