If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock

Author:Darryl Brock [Brock, Darryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781583949290
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2014-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

Dear Sam,

Abundant & fulsome considerations have prevented my writing sooner. To put it plainer, I’ve been in a humor to lie low. Even plainer, I’ve been scared eight points out of my wits. I jump like a cat at every sudden noise. You’ll reckon me a sap head for such carrying on. Livy’s family is at the heart of it—no, rather, her sweet unquestioning trust in me. If the slightest shadow fell now, with our engagement booming forward like it is, I’d blow my head off. Ten thousand times I’ve cursed myself for telling you that story. But then I think of our money & feel all secret & smug like a boy after stealing the pie from the window. But then I start brooding on the consequences all over again & I dive into a perfect swamp of gloom & imagine the Langdons finding out and falling on me like a thunderbolt. Oh, I am a raw specimen of desperado!

You can’t imagine the upheaval you stirred here. For days nothing could hold up one-tenth to events at the cemetery. Rumors had the Rebs coming back for vengeance, Quantrill’s Raiders or their ilk starting in with graves & next would come the banks & then homes . . . well, it went on & on. The local rag printed “clues”: dug-up earth around the grave & the splintered coffin top & horses racing down outlying roads & banshee screams & corpses lit up like lamps—oh it was a booming tide, a torrent. Then this ad appears:

Sizable cash award offered for information concerning whereabouts of missing war revenue rightfully ours.

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