Outside The Rain by Menon David

Author:Menon, David [Menon, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: UK
Publisher: Empire Publications
Published: 2013-09-12T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Sara drove down to Yitzhak and Hettie Goldstein’s house. Something one of them had said when she was there with Adrian Bradshaw had bothered her. Something about everything taking them back to nineteen forty-seven. She didn’t have a clue as to what it could mean but she had to go back and pursue it with them.

When she pulled up outside the house, Yitzhak was cleaning what looked like fresh graffiti from his front door. She got out of her car and walked up to him.

‘Mr Goldstein?’

Yitzhak turned around but he didn’t offer a friendly greeting. ‘Detective.’

‘Mr Goldstein, what’s happened?’

‘If you and your colleagues had done your job properly then it wouldn’t have happened!’

Sara paused to contain her irritation. ‘But what has happened, Mr Goldstein? And have you told my uniformed colleagues?’

‘No, I haven’t.’

‘I also gave you my mobile number,’ said Sara. ‘So why didn’t you call me?’

Yitzhak put the sponge he’d been holding back in the bucket of water on the ground beside where he was standing. ‘You’d better come in.’

Sara followed Yitzhak into the house and through to the kitchen. ‘Where’s Mrs Goldstein?’

‘Staying with her sister down the road,’ said Yitzhak as he filled the kettle. ‘As you can imagine she’s very upset.’

‘Mr Goldstein, I couldn’t make it out from what was left on the door but what was the message this time?’

‘Oh there were no words, Detective’ said Yitzhak. ‘It was a rather crude depiction of a man being hanged.’

‘And was it on any of the other doors in the street or elsewhere in the neighbourhood?’ asked Sara.

‘No,’ said Yitzhak. ‘Our house was singled out this time. They knew their target.’

‘How do you mean?’

‘Detective, please sit down. I’ll make us some coffee and tell you everything.’

Yitzhak fussed around the kitchen making the coffee. Once it was done he placed the pot on the table and next to it some sugar in a bowl and a small jug of milk. Then he took some biscuits from a tin and placed them on a plate which he then put down next to the pot of coffee. He poured some coffee for Sara and added some milk as she requested. Sara wondered if all elderly Jewish people were like Yitzhak. She’d probably find out soon enough. That would be the next thing in the journey of her relationship with Jacob. Parents on each side would have to be introduced if she and Jacob admitted to how serious things were getting between them.

‘So,’ said Sara. ‘Tell me everything.’

‘My family, my parents, my siblings and I, arrived in England just before the outbreak of the second world war in 1939. We were from Lithuania originally. But when the war finished my father went out to Palestine, which was then ruled by the British, to prepare the way for us all to move out there and begin the realisation, like thousands of others, of the Jewish dream of a homeland. But, it didn’t quite work out that way. How it happened, I don’t know, none of us did, but my father somehow became involved with the Irgun.

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