At Clark’s puzzled look, Martha elaborated, “It’s been eighteen and a half years since your ‘sister’ was buried, and I don’t know if even bones are left, but if they are — I need you to help me remove them and rebury them elsewhere. It’s illegal to bury bodies anywhere but the cemetery, so if your friends were to dig there for some reason and find the skeleton, it could be a problem. There would be questions as to why she was buried there — maybe even a murder charge, though she was stillborn — and it would reveal that you aren’t my son by birth.”
This was a very sad and painful episode, not for just Clark, but for Martha. So many hopes and dreams were dashed when she lost her children, yet through it all she and Jonathan weathered the storm.
Clark was fortunate to have been found by them.
