The Death of Love by Bartholomew Gill

Author:Bartholomew Gill [Gill, Bartholomew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9780688087159
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1991-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

“You know me, and you know what I stand for,” he rasped out. “All those years you sent me to the Dail, the one thing you know you got from me was the truth. I wasn’t afraid to tell it then, I’m not now.”

Gladden lowered the bullhorn to show them his beaten face.

“I also stand before you a man with a heavy heart both for my good friend and patient Paddy Power, who was murdered in Parknasilla, and for this country, which is led by the men who murdered him. That is the truth.”

Again Gladden lowered the bullhorn and seemed pleased to see he had the crowd’s full attention. All that could be heard was the rumble of the waterfall, the cries of gulls working the race, and the gears and shutters of cameras.

“They murdered Paddy Power for three reasons. First, to rid themselves of the only real political threat to the continuing tyranny of Sean Dermot O’Duffy and his capitalist crowd. Paddy Power was admired and loved by the people of Ireland, for whom he did and planned to do so much.

“Second, to emasculate his conference, which would have revealed the truth about our national debt and who it has benefited. And third, to suppress the memoir that Paddy was planning to write about his years in government.

“Knowing the O’Duffy government as he did, fearing something like this would happen. Paddy had given me for safekeeping his original notes for the memoir. At the murder scene those notes were discovered to have been stolen.

“Yesterday morning, the same government man who did this to me”—Gladden again swung the bullhorn to the side and pointed to his face—“the same government man who is investigating Paddy’s murder, learned that I planned to reveal the notes and give them to you and the press here this morning.

“Yesterday afternoon without writ or warrant, this same senior official of the Garda Siochana broke into my home and stole the cards from me. When I attempted to stop him, he then beat and transported me to the Waterville Lake Hotel, where—come closer while I tell you, good people of Sneem—he attempted to frame me, whom you know; me, your medical doctor who has cared for you all, no matter who, where, or when, me, your Teachta Dail for over a dozen years; me, Paddy Power’s oldest and best friend”—Gladden smote his chest—“for his murder, which even for those men from Dublin, even for Sean Dermot O’Duffy, is a low, base, and foul obscenity.”

Gladden paused, as though he could not continue without gathering himself.

A man beside McGarr shook his head. “Politician’s blarney, every last word of it.”

“The name of the man who has done, who is doing, this, is Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr, and before something further happens to me, I want to tell you and the nation how Paddy’s murder was accomplished and why.”

McGarr could feel the eyes of the bar on him, and he had to admire Gladden’s forensic talent in setting city against country,

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