The Correspondent
FROM: sybilvanantwerp@
SUBJECT: Job + child in my house
Dear Basam,
Here is the update with my job search for you: I sent your resume to Dale Woodson via my son, Bruce.
Bruce said Dale has been knee-deep in some terrific mess regarding a bridge that collapsed up in Pittsburgh (early morning, fortunately, only three people dead) and the state of Pennsylvania is suing the company that conducts safety checks.
Anyway, Bruce is going to follow up with Dale in a few weeks when the dust of that proverbial wreckage settles (no pun intended).
Additionally, I wanted to fill you in on the latest. I mentioned to you I was going to be rather tied up because of hosting this teenage boy for a while.
Well, as it happens he became very interested when I mentioned a bit about Kindred, the DNA testing, etc.
I happened to mention to him about the match with Henrietta Gleason and Harry’s face lit right up, saying that 49% is quite a match, absolutely sisters.
That was a shock, but I kept my wits. He got onto the internet one evening when I was already asleep, and he found her.
There was a notice in an online paper from the area about a local famous woman doing groundbreaking research in soil science named Henrietta “Hattie” Nell Gleason (She goes by “Hattie”).
Harry followed some incomprehensible rabbit trail to find an address for her, indeed, as you remembered, in Fort William, Scotland.
So now I am faced with this information and a decision has to be made. What do you think?
Warm regards,
Sybil Van Antwerp