Missing Witness
“He knew he had become single-focused on the case. In his more honest moments he admitted he had become just plain insufferable.
I’ll make it up to her, he thought.
That morning he looked over her log of notes from Randolph Willowby’s diary. When he saw her painstaking detail, that’s when he really felt guilty.
The diary made clear that Willowby had become, in the last months of life, a convert to Christ. He apparently had always had a mild interest in family genealogy. But as the end got closer, it became a near-obsession. He tried to study everything he could about his link to the Joppa line—through Elisha Willowby’s marriage to Myrtle Joppa almost three hundred years before.
And he wondered about Reverend Malachi Joppa…and what caused Isaac Joppa to run away from his home and family…and whether he had been wrongfully accused.
Toward the end, he talked about his contact with Jonathan Joppa. He attended one of his church services, but found it uninspiring. “Joppa’s sermon had no passi...on, and little Bible in it.”MoreLess
I’ll make it up to her, he thought.
That morning he looked over her log of notes from Randolph Willowby’s diary. When he saw her painstaking detail, that’s when he really felt guilty.
The diary made clear that Willowby had become, in the last months of life, a convert to Christ. He apparently had always had a mild interest in family genealogy. But as the end got closer, it became a near-obsession. He tried to study everything he could about his link to the Joppa line—through Elisha Willowby’s marriage to Myrtle Joppa almost three hundred years before.
And he wondered about Reverend Malachi Joppa…and what caused Isaac Joppa to run away from his home and family…and whether he had been wrongfully accused.
Toward the end, he talked about his contact with Jonathan Joppa. He attended one of his church services, but found it uninspiring. “Joppa’s sermon had no passi...on, and little Bible in it.”MoreLess
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