Dark Lake by Clare Revell

Author:Clare Revell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Fiction
ISBN: 9781522300779
Publisher: Pelican Book Group
Published: 2018-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

24

As she finished the last entry, a knock at the door made Lou jump. “One minute.” She flung the covers back and padded across to the door. She was stiff and cold and wondered who would want her at this unearthly hour.

Evan smiled. “Morning.”

She did a double take, staring at him in confusion. “It is?”

He nodded. “Half past seven on the dot. You wanted to be at the lake by eight. And when you weren’t at breakfast, I thought I’d come knock you up.” He paused. “I apologize for the wholly inappropriate choice of words there.”

She grinned. “It’s fine, I know what you mean.” Had she really been reading all night?

He moved past her into the room and opened the thick, heavy drapes. Sunlight filled the room, the dust shining in the rays. “See, its daylight. You look dreadful.” Concern shone in his blue eyes. “Have you slept at all?”

“No. I was reading and didn’t realise the time. Have you read the journal at all?”

“Bits of it. Enough to know my great-grandfather was part of what happened here.”

She frowned. “I don’t think he was.”

Evan picked up the journal from the bed and read from the last entry. “‘My job, my calling, is to save lives, not be responsible for their loss, especially in such appalling circumstances. Maybe it’s fitting I spend the rest of my life caring for the dam here. Caring for the lost, the damned, those I betrayed. The irony is not lost on me.’ And a bit farther on. ‘I just hope someday, maybe in eternity, Father will forgive me this last act. Until that point may God have mercy on my soul and on the souls of those innocents caught up in all this.’”

He rubbed the back of his neck, his spirit in obvious torment over this whole affair. “Over and over he refers to what he did, why he did it.” He put the book down. “All of this,” he indicated the room, the gardens beyond the window, “paid for with blood money.”

“You should read all of it,” Lou said. As Evan shook his head, she raised an eyebrow. “There are pages missing, and parts too faded to read, but there is enough there to know the truth. He didn’t kill anyone. There was a plague epidemic. He couldn’t save them, Evan. They died because there weren’t medications or the hospital services like there are now. He was a doctor, and he couldn’t save them. That’s why he blamed himself.”

She studied her hands. She ought to tell him. She had avoided it last night because she wasn’t sure he wasn’t involved somehow. But now, what did she have to lose? “He mentioned hiding a box in the church crypt, didn’t he?”

Evan nodded, reading the text again. “‘I have written more and sealed it in a watertight box and hidden it in the church crypt. Nowhere else is safe. The reach of CS knows no bounds.’ I’m not sure who CS is.”

“My guess would be Chester Sparrow,” Lou muttered.

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