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hospital to see her, but she was sleeping. The nurse said she seemed disoriented.” Her lower lip started to tremble. “Thatcould mean some kind of brain damage. Or it could just be something temporary. We don’t know yet. I’m going to see her again today. I hope she’s okay. And I hope she saw who did it and that the police catch the person. It’s bad enough stealing from her. But knocking down an old person like that? You could kill them.”
    I felt sick inside. If it
was
a coincidence, it was the world’s biggest one.
    â€œDid she have a lot of valuable stuff in her purse?”
    â€œShe told one of the paramedics that she didn’t have much money in her wallet,” Jana said.
    I felt even sicker. There hadn’t been much money in the purse I had taken.
    â€œBut all her ID was in there, and it’s going to be a hassle to replace. The thing that’s really horrible, though, is the watch.”
    I thought about the little box that Drew had found inside the purse I had taken.
    â€œShe talked to my dad just before she left her apartment that day. She had a watchin her purse—a watch that she was going to send to my brother.”
    â€œBut it’s—” I stopped myself just in time. I had been going to say that the watch was rusted and didn’t even work.
    Jana frowned at me. “It’s what?”
    â€œNothing,” I said. “Can’t she just buy another watch?”
    Jana shook her head.
    â€œThis watch is special. It belonged to my grandma’s older brother. He was a pilot during World war Two. His plane was shot down over the jungle in Burma. You know where that is?”
    I nodded, even though I was pretty sure I’d never even heard of a place called Burma.
    â€œMy grandma says she can still remember the day they sent someone to her house. She says it was the minister of her parents’ church. He came to tell them that her brother was missing.”
    â€œMissing? So he didn’t die when his plane was shot down?”
    â€œThat’s the thing,” Jana said. “Grandma always says that was the worst part. Theyjust said he was missing, so for the longest time, my grandma and her parents and her brothers and sister kept hoping that he would turn up. They thought that maybe he’d been captured and was in a prisoner-of-war camp somewhere. They contacted the Red cross to see if they could find out where he was.”
    â€œAnd did they?”
    She shook her head.
    â€œAfter the war ended and they hadn’t found out anything, they figured that he must have died—maybe when his plane was shot down, or maybe after, you know, in the jungle. Or maybe he had been in a prisoner-of-war camp and had died there. But they never knew for sure what happened to him. My grandma says it was horrible. She says that even though her parents knew he must be dead, they always hoped he would show up one day.”
    â€œBut he never did, huh?”
    â€œNo.”
    â€œSo, this watch your grandma had— did her brother give it to her before he went away?”
    Jana shook her head again.
    â€œHe had it with him when he left for overseas. He had it when he was shot down.”
    â€œI don’t get it,” I said. “I thought you said they never found him.”
    â€œThey didn’t. But a couple of years ago, a hunter found this old rusted watch in the jungle in Burma. He showed it to some missionaries. They saw the engraving on the back of it and realized that it had belonged to someone who had been in the air force. It had a name and a serial number on it. They sent it to Veterans Affairs, and they tracked down my grandmother. They returned the watch to her a month ago. They say they’re going to organize a search to see if they can find my great-uncle and the rest of the people who were in the plane so that they can be buried here at home.”
    I stared at her.
    â€œYou’re kidding, right?