Number Four by Colin Cotterill

Author:Colin Cotterill [Cotterill, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9786164560017
Publisher: Proglen
Published: 2018-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

A few seconds after I turned off the phone, I got another call. This one from Laurie.

‘I found your sender,’ he said. ‘But she’s not Indian.’

‘She’s not?’ I said, relieved I hadn’t put him in harm’s way.

‘Thai,’ he said. ‘Nune, works as a receptionist at Mae Jo University. She went out to post the letters in her morning coffee break. One a day.’

‘Why?’

‘Because your pen friend, Dula asked her to,’ he said. ‘She sent her five sealed letters in a parcel from Malaysia. Asked Nune to send one a day. ‘

‘I’m back to why again.’

‘Nune had no idea. Dula works in the English department there, teaches literature part-time. Transferred from Chiang Mai University fifteen odd years ago. She was on faculty counting down to her retirement. Two weeks ago she vanished. No explanation. Classes untaught. Didn’t pick up her salary. Next thing you know this parcel arrives. Dula said she’d explain it all when she got back.’

‘Did Nune give you the last letter?’

‘No, said she wouldn’t feel right handing it over to a stranger. She posted it. With all the talking we missed the morning collection so you won’t get it ‘til the day after tomorrow. Sorry.’

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