A Heart Most Worthy by Siri Mitchell
Author:Siri Mitchell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781441214690
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2011-01-10T23:00:00+00:00
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Luciana swept her scarf back over her head, rushed down the stairs and into the street. “Have you seen my nonna?” She asked the question of everyone she met, the number of which were rapidly declining as the reach of the shadows was lengthening. People were going home for the night. Merchants were closing up their shops.
“Have you seen my grandmother?”
Answers to that question soon led her to the western end of North Bennet Street. And from there, up Salem Street, then to Charter Street. Apparently, an old woman had wandered that far. And no, she had not seemed to be in the company of anyone in particular.
The contessa had stopped, for a time, to watch a group of children jumping rope.
She had paused at a fish seller’s and asked him about his eels. Tried to buy a bun from the baker, telling him to send the bill to her son, the Count of Roma. The shopkeeper had laughed as he told her that.
But once Luciana had reached the corner at Commercial Street, her grandmother might as well have vanished. No one else had reported seeing her. And, truthfully, there was nowhere else for her to have gone. In front of Luciana ran an expanse of railroad tracks, and across the tracks several trolley sheds. To her right was a slaughterhouse, the stench of which pierced her nose and roiled her stomach. Had the contessa come this far, and she undoubtedly had, Luciana ought to have seen her. There was nowhere for her to hide.
Where had her grandmother gone?
The sun had already begun to disappear behind the roofs of distant buildings. The remaining rays of light were retreating from the scene before her. A train rumbled by above her, sending a shower of soot cascading down upon her.
There were so few places to look and even those few places were quickly being consumed by shadows.
O Signore, aiutaci a . . . O God, help us to . . .
She paused, raised her eyes toward heaven.
Help me to . . . please. Help me to find my nonna.
It was the first time in a long time that she had prayed to God. And it was the first time she had ever prayed for something for herself. The very first time she had ever deviated from the Church’s standard, scripted incantations, and she didn’t know what to say. Didn’t know what words to use. She only knew that among the tens of thousands of people in the North End that evening, the search for just one could not be very important and very likely not worth Signore’s time. But didn’t He know all? Didn’t He see all? And even if He hadn’t concerned himself with Luciana before, couldn’t He, even now, direct her steps to the place where her grandmother had gone? Didn’t He owe her at least that?
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath. Then opened them.
Luciana stepped into the street and crossed the road. Started across the railroad tracks.
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