Gun in the Gardenias by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Cozy, Mystery
ISBN: 9781773361901
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Sunday Late Afternoon …

The walk up the creek was pleasant until Doreen got to where she always crossed over to Penny’s side. And then she got melancholic and said, “Just think. If Penny hadn’t attacked me,” she said out loud, “or if she hadn’t shot Hornby …”

She was pretty sure the jury would let Penny off the hook on killing her brother on compassionate grounds alone, since she had been through a similar sort of abuse as her brother. But those recent attacks on Hornby and Doreen? Those were an entirely different thing. With her hands in her pockets, Doreen walked forward, past the stepping stones, wanting to cross over to see how Penny’s garden looked but knowing she was here for an entirely different reason. She had never been up this far either.

She kept on walking as the creek lost some of its bank, making the traveling a little difficult. But, with the waters still low, she could walk along the creek bed itself. She just didn’t want to end up falling and hurting her ankle and having to call for help. That would be humiliating. Some of the creek up here had really high banks, and she knew that some of them were private property, but along one side was a large pathway.

She should have crossed over when she could to remain on the safer path. Bridges, overpasses, and underpasses allowed for the walkway on one side. But, of course, she wasn’t on that side. She kept on walking farther, recognizing some of the landmarks she’d seen on her Google search, and then finally she came to the corner where it looked like Steve’s property started.

Immaculate lawns spread out in front of her. She could still continue to walk on the rocks and not touch his private property. As far as water rights went in Canada, you didn’t own the water. There were the odd properties that had different rules written into ownership, but that would have been older archaic rules. Along here was a riparian zone, and you owned up to the high-water mark, but, once you got to a high-water mark, the city owned that and controlled what you could do with your land before it too. So she was allowed to walk where she was. It was Crown land. She kept going, only to realize Thaddeus had fallen behind. She walked back and offered him her shoulder. He hopped up, crooned against her, and tucked up along her neck. He was seated but staring up and around avidly.

“We’ve never been here before, have we?” she asked.

“It’s new. It’s new.”

“It is, indeed, new,” she said with a chuckle. Calling Goliath to her, they kept walking until they got to the end of Steve’s property. It was a stunning location. It opened up to more farmland, horse pastures, and what looked like a big riding arena in the distance. Up and down, the path had disappeared somewhere along the line, but she figured that, from the looks of the worn path she was on now, this was an area people used when the water was low.

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