Terror Tales of the West Country by Paul Finch

Author:Paul Finch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Manuscript Template, Public
Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd

A week later, he told me he’d written to Sabian Gates’s widow. While Si Littlefield was over chatting to the university people at the specimens table (discussing a votive we’d found in the shape of an eye; sadly the iris, probably made of glass or onyx intaglio, was missing), Luke took the opportunity to confide in me that he’d received a reply to his letter. I think he was afraid to tell me about it until he had.

‘She said some nice things. Said Gatesy always talked about me. Said she’d like to meet me.’ He’d taken out the reply from his back pocket. Pale blue paper, folded, and I could see the ghost of careful handwriting through on the other side, but he didn’t read it aloud and I didn’t ask him to. It fluttered in the breeze but he held it tightly.

‘Got her phone number?’

He nodded.

‘Phone her.’ I scraped at the collar bone protruding from the earth near my right knee. ‘Go and see her. Go and see those kids.’ I blew residual grit into a cloud of dust. ‘For your peace of mind.’ I stood, hands on hips, wiping sweat from my brow with my wrist. ‘Talk to her about Gatesy. Tell her what he meant to you. More importantly, tell her what his wife and family meant to him. They need to know, and you’re the person to do it. It’s what he would have wanted, isn’t it?’

‘I think it is.’

‘Right.’

I was going to ask, did he think that was what Gatesy was trying to tell him in the dreams? Not to put him together, because he never could. That was the past. The person Luke had to piece together was himself.

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