The Legend of Long Jones by European P. Douglas

Author:European P. Douglas [Douglas, European P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: serial killer
Publisher: Ghost Creative
Published: 2019-08-04T22:00:00+00:00

AT THE END OF WHAT he thought of as ‘Day One’, Lord Muc sat by the window in his usual evening chair- usual when he was at home in the evening that was- and drank a bottle of beer. It had been a trying day all in all. The new enemies in the O’Malley’s was not sitting well with him. At first glance they were simply textile people, upper class and nothing to be fearful of, but there was something more to them- especially the brother, Peter. He held a coldness and fearlessness Muc had rarely seen. There were certainly things the world at large didn’t know about that one. James O’Malley was harder to read being in mourning as he was. No doubt had it been up to him, David Stirling would already be dead. Muc had asked for information on them as part of the search for where they were hiding Stirling, but the search was to be the main priority and no one had come back with anything of interest on the men yet.

Muc recalled standing with Sergeant Malwey the other morning and wondered if perhaps he should pay a visit to the policeman for information about the brothers. Something to keep in reserve for the moment, maybe. If Muc chanced on him in the street he could ask him then, but there was no pressing need for it yet.

Aunty Kay came into the room and flopped down into the chair across from him as though they were a married couple and her day’s work was done. He regarded her with a raised eyebrow,

“What do you want?” he asked her. Kay looked at him in return and said,

“There was talk this afternoon.” Kay never said exactly where she was talking about or who the person had been who spoke.

“What talk?”

“They say someone had recently been putting pressure on Jeremiah Roan to sell up his store.”

“Did ‘they’ say who it was putting the pressure on?” Kay shook her head,

“No, but apparently a few weeks ago someone was caught trying to set the place on fire.”

“Who?”

“Some street kid, but he made a mess of it and got away.”

“Anything else?” he asked her.

“No, that was it.”

“They didn’t say why the person might want the tailors shop?”

“I’ll see if I can find out more in the market in the morning,” she said.

“Thanks, Kay, this is something worth looking in to.” Kay didn’t say anything to this but when a few seconds later she was still sitting in the chair looking at him, he said, “What now?”

“You should take that girl Susan out of her line of work and marry her,” Kay said, her tone no nonsense. Muc spat up the sip of beer he’d just taken as she spoke,

“What in the hell are you saying, woman!” he laughed.

“I’m not laughing,” she said, “I think it would be good for you, and I know it would be good for her.”

“Well,” Muc said in a falsely polite voice, “I thank you for your concern, but I am, well, let’s just say, not of marriageable material.

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