A Liverpool Girl by Elizabeth Morton

Author:Elizabeth Morton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473565982
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Chapter Twenty-five

The door of the boarding house was shuttered. She looked up at the building. Twenty-one Canning Street, Callum had said, she was sure of it. Finally, a face appeared at the window. It was a woman with a hairnet covering her head, wearing an old housecoat. No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs, said the cardboard notice, propped up on the windowsill downstairs.

The woman pushed up the sash window, asked Babby what she wanted at this time of night.

‘I’m looking for Callum, my friend,’ called Babby, up at the window.

‘No Callum here,’ replied the woman, irritated that Babby had dragged her out of bed.

‘But this was the address he gave me,’ said Babby.

‘No one by the name of Callum here,’ the woman repeated.

Had he given a false name? wondered Babby. She hesitated.

‘Git,’ said the woman, before closing the window with a bang.

‘Very nice,’ said Babby, shouting up at the window. Her voice echoed around the streets. Perhaps she should wait.

She sat on the step, her back to the railings. The stone soon became like ice and numbed her bottom. Her coat, threadbare and old, did nothing to keep the bitter cold from seeping up through her bones.

Suddenly there was a vicious flash of lightning. She waited for the growl of thunder to pass. But then the growl exploded into a volley of crackling gunfire. She turned up her collar. It was summer, but this was Liverpool; the rain began lashing down, and with it a cold wind rushed about her that sounded like the wailing of banshees. She would go home, meet Callum at the Tivvy the next day as they had planned, and hope all would be explained.

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