Echo of Glory by Martina Boone

Author:Martina Boone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction & Literature
Publisher: Mayfair Publishing
Published: 2018-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

Hostage

“Our men surrendered,

and doing so, believed they dealt

With a gallant foe.”

Timothy Daniel O’Sullivan

Dunboy and Other Poems



Niall hated embroiling Meg in yet another family crisis, but he had to admit that if he’d chased after Adam himself it would have made the situation worse. Honestly, having Meg volunteer to speak to Adam was a relief on many fronts—he’d already had to duck away from the excavation too many times and left Gemma and the others to clean up Kieran’s messes. It was part of his responsibility to keep everyone getting along.

He waited until Meg had crossed the bridge, then walked to where James was scraping the last of the spilled soil back into the bucket and clapped him on the shoulder. “All right, James?”

“No, I’m bloody not. Kieran’s out of control.”

“I’ll speak to Graeme again and get it sorted, only it might be easier to take the instruments over to the Kilmichael cemetery this afternoon for the sake of keeping peace.”

“That’s giving in to blackmail.” James flushed red and glared at Niall. “Anyway, what’s the bloody point? We’d have seen if there was a mass burial—that many graves from the same period or one large one. And someone would have remembered. There’d be a place name, a mention somewhere. But all Kieran has is an idea because he doesn’t want the bodies to have been thrown over the cliff. Or he’s trying to delay us finding anything until after his father’s nominated in case we find something that proves it was Carew’s men who did it.”

“That may be,” Niall said, stifling an exasperated sigh. “But if you go out with the metal detector and find nothing unusual, it will be easier for me to stand my ground.”

“He still won’t be satisfied. There are still thirty-odd acres of land that belonged to St. Michael’s. He’ll insist we have to scan those, too, and he’ll say we should use the GPR in case there wasn’t any metal in the graves, and he won’t stop until we’ve done what he wants. Then we won’t have time for proper documentation or spot excavations where we really need them before the season’s finished.”

“Assuming there’s anything to find elsewhere.”

“There is,” James said, his eyes gleaming. “I feel it.”

He turned away as though that were the end of the conversation—and in his own way, he was no less stubborn than Kieran. He’d been treated as a prodigy so long, he expected his opinions to be taken as gospel, but unlike Kieran, he had the track record to back it up. As usual, Niall was left scrambling to know how to appease them both when neither was willing to give an inch.

“Go to the cemetery this afternoon—for me, James. Have a poke around. Do another quick walk through the fields. Then when you don’t find anything, you can at least say there’s nowhere to start and we’ll be able to move it back down to the bottom of the list. The old tunnel’s meant to be out that direction anyway, if it was ever there.

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