Good People by Ewart Hutton

Author:Ewart Hutton [Hutton, Ewart]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-01-10T11:00:00+00:00

12

Bryn Jones called me the following morning. When I had finished the call I remembered that it was Saturday. He shouldn’t have been at work.

‘We hear that you’ve run into a little local difficulty.’

‘Who told you that, sir?’

‘Concerned colleagues.’

That meant Morgan and Hughes. Concerned only because I was complicating their lives.

‘We can pull you out of there.’

I groaned inwardly. Not so long ago that would have been music to my ears. ‘No thanks, sir.’

‘O-U-T,’ he spelled it, ‘you’ve been begging us for this.’

‘It’s what they want, sir.’

‘What who wants?’

‘A certain section of the community is holding me responsible for the death of Trevor Vaughan.’

‘You don’t think that was kosher?’ he asked, a note of cautious tension rising into his voice.

‘I’m pretty sure that he did it to himself. It’s why he did it that intrigues me.’

‘We could order you out,’ he warned.

‘I’d rather stay. I’d like to try and find out what’s behind this reaction.’

‘Just don’t leave it too late to jump.’

‘I won’t. Thank you, sir.’

‘Use my mobile number if you need anything.’

‘There is one thing that would be useful …’

‘What’s that?’ he asked warily.

I gave him the details of the children’s home in Manchester, and asked if he could set it up so that they would receive a call from me as one of the good guys. I sensed the pause on the line. He would be debating with himself whether to ask me what I wanted this for. Knowing that my answer would probably make him refuse the request.

He didn’t ask, just said that he would see what he could do. ‘Take care of yourself and behave responsibly,’ he finished gruffly.

I pondered the nature of the call. Morgan had obviously advised Carmarthen about the situation here. Jack Galbraith had had to offer to pull me out to cover his arse. By refusing, I was being the obstinate one.

But why hadn’t they just ordered me out? Since when had Jack Galbraith ever offered me a choice that he hadn’t loaded? So either he felt some deep instinctual rumbling that I might be on to something, or he just wanted to irritate the shit out of Inspector Morgan.

The phone rang again. It was too soon for Bryn to have organized the call to the children’s home.

‘Glyn?’

‘Sally. How are you?’ I let her hear my surprise morph into pleasure.

‘I’m fine. I’m calling to apologize for last night.’

‘You’ve nothing to apologize for.’

‘Yes, I have. I went all stiff and snotty on you. I want to make up for it.’

‘There’s no need.’

‘Yes, there is. I want to show you that I can be fun to be with. So, it’s Saturday, let’s do something together today.’

I winced. There was nothing I would have liked better, but I had already allocated this as too opportune a day to miss. ‘I’d really love to, Sally, but I can’t, I’ve got to work,’ I explained, hoping that she was catching my genuine disappointment.

‘Okay.’

‘We could go out again tonight,’ I offered.

‘I don’t think I want to.’

‘Ah, right,’ I replied, trapping my regret manfully.

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