"Are you sure that there were a total of two girls who fit the description of the Heath family?" Luther tried to confirm.
"Well, of course. After all, it was twenty years ago. In addition to those who had remained and grown up in the orphanage, there had been quite a lot of children who were adopted, and some were even adopted by foreigners. Ms. Armstrong checked pretty carefully."
Mrs. Barr recalled, "In the year when the Heath family lost their child, several children were taken into the orphanage. And then we ruled out the boys, those abandoned by their parents, those transferred from other orphanages, and those born and left in the hospital. At the end there were just two left, Charlotte and Joyce. Well, that’s should be the number."
"And then what? Why did the Heath family decide it was Charlotte?" Luther pursued .
"As I recall, the Heath family initially seemed to say they had a token, but it was too long ago for Ms. Armstrong to really find it. At that time Charlotte and Joyce seemed to be in college, so they rarely came back to the orphanage. Now the technology is advanced, and you can check that ... What is that again?" Mrs. Barr struggled to think.
"Paternity test, DNA," Luther reminded
"Yes, yes, yes, that's it!" Mrs. Barr nodded hastily, "I seem to remember it all. Since I'm usually in charge of cleaning Ms. Armstrong's room and office, I know a little bit about all these things."
"As I recall, Ms. Armstrong was so anxious that she called them separately and asked them both to come to the orphanage in the evening. Obviously they both agreed. However, none of them came that night. I remember very clearly that Ms. Armstrong was very upset that night and complained to me that the children were too old to be willing to come back to an orphanage."
Luther froze, as if something had suddenly occurred to him.
This possibility made his heartbeat jumbled for no reason.
"Can you still remember, which day it was four years ago?" He asked tentatively, "But it’s alright if you can’t."
Too much time had passed and it was hard to remember for anyone, and he did not have much of a hope in the first place.
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