"You suspect that girl, Jacqueline Spann? Impossible. How could she do something like that?" Preston Thorne shook his head vigorously, thinking Adrian Hawthorne was reading too much into it.
Even if that child has a bad disposition, she wouldn't go so far as to commit such a deranged and vicious act as poisoning. Most adults couldn't bring themselves to do something like that, let alone a ten-year-old girl.
Adrian Hawthorne said in a low voice, "It's hard to say right now. Let's go to the Spann family's house and check."
While Preston Thorne was still hesitating, Jethro Golding had already set off for the Spann family's home. He had spent some time in a beggars' gang and had seen the absolute worst of humanity—there was no evil he thought people incapable of committing.
He had even witnessed something as inhuman and cruel as cannibalism, so he was far more willing to accept Adrian Hawthorne's speculation than Preston Thorne was.
