Chapter 320
"Andy Black?" Zion looked at the photo, surprised. Had Sarah really gotten together with Andy before?
"Do you still have any clues you haven’t told the police, Mr. Leigh?" he asked.
Floyd gave it some thought before taking out a stack of letters and some remittance slips from his battered suitcase.
"These are the letters Sarah sent to me back then. She would send me money every month, and she would transfer money once she got a card." He took out the letters wrapped in a plastic bag. It was clear that he had put in effort to keep her belongings.
I reached for the letters and envelopes. They were indeed rather old, with some of the envelopes yellowing. But it wasn’t hard to tell from Sarah’s letters that she had a close relationship with Floyd.
She likely knew that he was illiterate, so her letters included simple greetings, expressions of longing, and also little drawings depicting her current life. At first, she only drew herself, but another figure appeared over time-Andy.
Sarah mentioned in her letters that she met a good person and decided to spend her life with him. However, the Blacks had opposed it after knowing of her poor family background.
She seemed to have cried while writing another letter as it was wrinkly. In the letter, she asked: "Is it really important to marry within your social class, Floyd?"
I looked at Dexter. "Sarah was just 18 back then, and Andy should be of similar age as well. They were both barely legal, yet they were already considering marriage?"
"People were more conservative back then. They would think of marriage once they got together," Zion explained.
I nodded. It was likely for two young people in their prime to have gotten together intimately, in that sense. Sarah wouldn’t have considered marriage so early otherwise.