Chapter 6

Upon waking, Elsie Gardner felt groggy, as if she were coming down with a fever. Frederick West, Harlem Riley, and Jordan Daniels seemed to have heard the news from somewhere and quickly came rushing to her side.

She had been sick for three days, and they visited daily, practically moving into the Gardner house, even though they didn't spend much time with her. Most of their time was spent downstairs with Greta Chapman, teaching her chess, playing the piano, accompanying her in the garden to trim flowers and water the plants, and snapping photos or sketching portraits of her. Elsie…