FULL CIRCLE
Chapter 20
Leaving the newspaper building, Eva headed back to the hospital in order to seek out Stephen. Catching sight of him, she said, "Grab Frank and Natalie and meet me in the conference room."
"What about Miles? He's back at Bay View," Stephen asked.
"We can tell him later if we have to," Eva replied.
"All right. But make this quick," Stephen instructed as he headed for the lab with Eva right behind him.
Natalie looked up from her microscope to ask, "What's going on, Connor?"
"Eva wants us all in the conference room," he answered.
"Are we waiting for Miles?" the doctor asked.
"Apparently not," Stephen replied, looking at Eva. "This had better be good."
Upstairs in the conference room, Eva looked at the others and asked, "Has anybody noticed that Miles isn't acting exactly," she shrugged her shoulders, "like Miles?"
"I did notice his reluctance to being here. But since it doesn't seem to be affecting his work, I just let it pass," Stephen admitted.
"Well, I checked out the Bay View website and noticed that it doesn't say anything prior to four years ago. But it's apparently been around at lot longer. So with the help of an old friend from the
San Francisco Star/Times, we did a little digging. All perfectly legal, just newspaper files and microfilm archives. And we found this," Eva explained, handing Stephen the first printout.
He quickly read it over. "So the nursing home was under different owners. What has that got to do with this?" he asked, passing the paper to Frank.
"You'll see. Now here is an expose on Bay View and some of the pictures are shocking," Eva warned.
Stephen looked at the expose, shaking his head at the photos of the residents. From what little he'd seen of Bay View, it didn't seem to be like that anymore. Quickly reading through the accompanying article, he paused when he came to the name 'S. McCabe'.
"It gets better. Or worse, depending on your perspective," Eva continued. "We did an obituary search for any 'S. McCabe' and found quite a few. But one in particular." She handed over the remaining printout on which she'd underlined a name. "Look who the grandson is. Remind you of somebody we know?"
Frank looked at the obituary and gave a low whistle. "Miles."
"Exactly. Apparently he had a grandfather who died at Bay view with neglect possibly being a contributing factor," Eva summed up.
"I knew he doesn't really like it when he has to be at a nursing home. And now I think I understand why," Stephen said thoughtfully.
"Are we going to tell Miles that we know?" Natalie asked.
"At least not right away. If he'd wanted us to know, he would've told us. And we need to respect his privacy. So as long as he does okay, we say nothing," Stephen decided. He looked at the
others. "Time to get back to work, everybody."