SPOILERS!!!
Kate's father comes to see her, and he advises that if she is serious about taking Tabitha's case, she should have an assistant. He recommends Jimmy Sikes, a former policeman, and Kate reluctantly agrees to talk to the man. When he meets him, they agree on his pay and Kate admits that he will be able to gain access to places which is banned for women.
Kate travels to stay with Tabitha and asks her about her missing father. Her brother Edmund had been killed at the Somme, but Tabitha does not think that affected her father so much as he was the kind of person who took everything in his stride. Around that time some boy scouts found Joshua at the stream and saved him. As suicide is considered a crime, the scoutmaster called the constable. Joshua remained under watch at the local hospital, and it was from there that he went missing.
Kate not only talks to Tabitha but also her mother, who claims that it was his fault that her son was killed. He clearly doesn't feel sorry that he went missing as their marriage was on the rocks. Joshua was a womaniser and also overbearing. Everlyn is sure that Joshua tried to commit suicide and there was a note but she doesn't remember what the note said.
Hector is Tabitha's fiancé. He is ten years her junior, and Kate learns that he was one of the boy scouts who found Joshua at the stream, and he seems to know something, but he refuses to tell Kate because she won't keep it from Tabitha.
Neville is Joshua's cousin and now runs the mill. He and Joshua were very close, and he says that maybe his cousin decided to move to warmer climates, but he could well be dead. The man shows Kate around the mill, and when she asks him to read the minutes, the man refuses. What Neville tells her tallies with what Sykes tells her about Joshua and the relationship with Hofmann, a German dye maker, and it seems that he got hold of his stash when he returned to German. So he may have piled a fortune, and maybe he decided to run away and enjoy his hidden money.
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