Cursed With a Twist by Constance Barker

Author:Constance Barker [Barker, Constance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Constance Barker
Published: 2018-04-13T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Piper

BLAKE HAD A BRILLIANT mind, but he babbled at times and wandered from one topic to another. I concentrated to collect useful data and understood we investigated a mystery deeper than a single locket. The ringtone broke my focus.

I flicked the icon to the right and answered. “Hello?”

“Piper, it’s Ginger. We may have found something and maybe you can do some followup research while you are at the historical society.”

“That sounds promising. What is it?”

“Erin Byrnes may have been Erin Walsh by marriage. But her family had some sort of decorated military history. I’m hoping you can find out what that might be.”

“Well, we found Erin was Erin Walsh too. But how did you find out about her family history?”

“We didn’t, it’s why I’m asking you to do some looking for us. But we did find a letter from her son, Daniel, that mentioned he wanted to honor her family’s military history.”

“Well, let me see what Digger and I can find. And on this end, you’re not going to believe it. But we might have found out who the grumpy chicken is and why it’s bad-tempered.”

“Is the grumper a slave or confederate soldier?”

“Nope, good guess. It’s the ghost of General Lee’s pet chicken and it may be guarding a stash of gold.”

“Wow. That’s far more complicated.”

“Yeah, but you had to be here to hear the whole thing, the pieces seem to fit. The old locket seems to tell Blake, the historian here, that the giver must have had some money and could travel. Blake thinks the giver was Conner Walsh, Erin’s future husband, and the make of the locket implies Conner was connected to the outside world and knew key people. But this is the weird part. Blake knows of odd stories about Erin Walsh, says she was a psychic. And that means she could communicate with the chicken ghost who was protecting the south’s secret gold stashed in a small, out-of-the-way town. It was a perfect place to hide a treasure.”

“So why did the chicken got upset when we found locket?”

“Because it feared we might find the gold.”

“Twenty-four carat chicken feathers! This is not what I expected.”

“Yeah. Me neither. And I don’t want to speak for Digger, but I think he believes it less than you and me.”

“Well, can you take advantage of being there and look into the military history of the Byrnes family? Just to be thorough.”

“Sure. Everyone is waiting for me here, and unless there is something else, I should go now.”

“Nope, already asked for what I need.”

“OK, talk to ya later. See ya.” I clicked off.

Digger scowled at me. “You speaking for me? What do I not believe?”

“Blake’s story of who Erin and the chicken are.”

“Oh! That’s alright then. His story sounds like hog wash. It’s too far fetched.”

I turned to Blake. “My friend back home, Ginger, found that the Byrnes may have a decorated military past. Can you check on that for us?”

Blake’s eyes sparkled. “Oh, that’s very interesting. So there may be a tie back to the confederate army we can prove.

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