This was worst than he could have imagined or feared. When Mrs. Jesam had described her ordeal in the hands of the faceless people after her grandchild, Jim had wondered what specie of men would want to hurt a baby or people for money. Now, he was faced with the reality that it was not just a woman that was carrying out these heartless acts, but she was also his cousin. Wait, it was worst than that. From what she said, it meant that his cousin had always been his sister. And what are the odds that he would have been at that place and at that time with Mercy to discover the baby? If he could believe Nat's words, Willie was his brother too.
It was unbelievable that he would go from having no siblings at all and having wished for them while growing up, to having two dumped on him in strange circumstances. Ah, his father must have been really busy.
