A Magic Touch: A midlife paranormal mystery (Memory Guild Book 1) by Ward Parker

Author:Ward Parker [Parker, Ward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mad Mangrove Media
Published: 2021-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

According to our readings, it was Margaret who had discovered how rare the coin was and told Danielle. But Danielle had never mentioned the name to me. So I had to search blindly. I assumed Margaret was involved with antiquities or historical research of some kind. My first act was to search the online directory of the faculty at the local college. I found one Margaret, but she was a biochemist. It wasn’t likely to be her.

Next, I went to one of the city’s historical museums. San Marcos was said to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the U.S. There were a lot of museums. Some were really just tourist traps, like the Old Jail, but others were more legitimate. One of them chronicled the archeological digs that were ongoing in the city. It was a smaller facility with exhibits showing some of the finds from the digs, ranging from the Native American Timucuan people to the present day.

A docent, an elderly man with a cane, asked me if I wanted a tour.

“Actually,” I said, “I was wondering if anyone by the name of Margaret works here.”

“Oh, our assistant director is Margaret Peabody, is that who you mean?”

“Perhaps. All I know is her first name. Is she here today? My name is Darla Chesswick.”

The docent looked at me like I was a nut, but left the room. Not long afterwards, a middle-aged woman with her hair in a buzz cut approached me.

“I’m Margaret Peabody.”

“Hi! I’m Darla. Thanks for speaking to me. I’m doing some research, and someone gave me the name Margaret. I’m hoping it’s you.”

“Who gave you my name?”

“You wouldn’t know her. She doesn’t know you. Actually, it’s a really long, strange story, as so many things in life are. . .”

Margaret showed signs of losing patience.

“I’m looking for an artifact from the early Colonial era and hoped you might know something about it. It’s a carved wooden box that contained a parchment with information about a Spanish coin that presumably had been in the box as well, but has gone its own way since. A very rare coin.”

“A letter about a coin?” Her eyes narrowed.

“Yes.” I knew I sounded crazy. The docent should have told her I was a nut.

“We did have such an item,” she said. “It was stolen from the museum over a year ago. I always thought it odd, because we have antique coins here that could sell for good money, but this was a box with nothing but a letter in it.”

“I believe there’s a person who is searching for the coin. I think he stole the box and letter. Either to learn more about the coin. Or it’s through the letter that he discovered the coin exists. Did your exhibit have a transcript of the letter?”

“Just a brief summary. It would have been controversial if we transcribed the entire letter. There’s a reference in it to seeing the face of God. The exhibit was a portrayal of life back in the early years of the city.

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