Darnay Road by Diane Munier

Author:Diane Munier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-04-15T23:00:00+00:00

Darnay Road 40

I am glad to have the bike ride and I’m not in a really big hurry but I’m not exactly dawdling either because it wouldn’t surprise me a bit to have Aunt May pull alongside the curb because I took too long to get home.

So I’m going medium speed and my purse is rattling a little in my basket. I feel the weight of a fortune in there. That is what Granma called it—a fortune. But I reach the place where I can turn off for Scutter, and I never thought I’d be so happy about it. I get over the grass and tracks and through a gangway that leads to Scutter and I am peddling faster to reach Easy’s house.

I get there and I don’t hear his dog, not even when I go up on the porch. I knock and knock but Easy doesn’t answer. I call him too, but he doesn’t show. Well, he could be at big white or big gray or Nettie’s for all I know.

So there is a flower pot on the end of the porch. No flower, of course, just hard dirt. I drag that heavy pot near the door and I kneel and get the money out of my purse and put the money under the pot. I leave enough peak out that he can see it if he looks. I think he will cause this pot doesn’t normally sit right smack in front of his door.

I get along then, back to the gangway and across the tracks and through Miss Little’s. The yard looks strange without being overgrown. I look at her windows, but no sign of life shows.

Once on Darnay I look up at the trees, Sycamores mostly, lining the street. I guess I won’t be seeing these for a while except from my window or when I walk to school. Maybe then, but not as a free American.

So I get home and she is on the porch and I’m coming from the wrong way and it doesn’t matter now. “Hello Granma,” I say leaning my bike against Easy’s wonderful paint job on the porch. She stands very, very tall at the top of the porch stairs and I take them slowly, my purse in my hand.

“Millie called,” she says. “I suppose you did it.”

I am looking at her. “You can’t say anything to him. Not anything. You’ll ruin it if you do.”

“Oh my dear and darling girl I can do anything I need to do in a case like this,” she says.

“Yes Ma’am. But I will take the punishment so you don’t need to bother Easy about it.”

She blows a big breath and looks at the sky. “I blame myself and Hayley Mills and that gosh-darn movie Tiger Bay.”

I gasp. Tiger Bay is my all time most, most favorite movie ever made. Mine and Abigail May’s. But Easy is not Korchinski. In the movie, Hayley Mills knows Horst Buchholz who plays Korchinski murdered his girlfriend but she’ll do anything to protect him.

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