Lost Acre by Andrew Caldecott

Author:Andrew Caldecott [Caldecott, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784298043
Google: bZY0DwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1787473767
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2019-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

‘Oblong and Persephone’

She picked up their glasses. ‘Let me oil the wheels. I feel so much better for sharing this.’ She did not wait for Oblong’s protest but moved straight to the bar.

Oblong subjected the account to scrutiny. Fact: Madge Brown had been at Wynter’s resurrection. Surmise: Madge Brown had been hoping to interfere, but had had the powerfully built Everthorne to contend with. Problem: Orelia had given little detail of Brown’s role, focusing – understandably – on Everthorne. Fact: Madge Brown had left town. Question: Why she would leave if she were Wynter’s henchwoman, now of all times?

The interval dispelled the intensity, but Persephone Brown continued to exude a surprising certainty for a relative stranger to the town’s affairs.

‘I’m in the perfect position to keep an eye on Wynter,’ she concluded. ‘I’m sure he won’t suspect.’

*

Persephone Brown worked her way from The Journeyman’s Gist southeast to Rotherweird School. In the corner of the first Quad the sign on the music teachers’ staircase listed the Precentor’s rooms as occupying the ground, first and second floors. The Head of Music languished in cramped accommodation under the eaves. He administered only to boys. The Precentor served the town.

She knocked on the Precentor’s door. She had an order and a commission to place: three short period pieces admirably suited to the occasion. For a reason she could not explain, she added a wildly different fourth, as a coda. Like an impulse buy.

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