Katherine Hall Page - [Faith Fairchild Mystery 06] by The Body in the Basement

Author:The Body in the Basement
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-02-21T22:00:00+00:00

After leaving the Bainbridges, she felt a little betwixt and between. Sam was on a long cruise to Swans Island with a sailing buddy and Samantha was still at work. She thought she might pop in to Jill's store and pick up a baby sweater made by one of the women on the island that The Blueberry Patch stocked. One of Pix's cousin's children was having a baby, which would make Ursula a great-great-aunt and make Pix a what, a cousin some number of times removed?

Removed. She realized Mitchell Pierce's death had removed her from her normal embedded island feelings. She had the constant sense that she was on the outside looking in, not because she was from away but because there were things going on she couldn't quite make out. She had the illusion that if she could only squint hard enough, she'd be able to make out the shapes.

Jill was at the register. The store was empty.

“Hi, Pix," she said. She had been working on her accounts evidently and now shoved a large ledger under the counter. The cash register was an antique—and not for sale. It had been a fixture in the previous store to occupy the space, a cobbler's shop owned by Jill's grandfather.

“My cousin's daughter is having a baby soon and I want to send a sweater."

“Do they know what they are having? I always think that sounds so odd, but you know what I mean?"

“Yes, I do, and they don't, so the sweater had better be white or yellow.”

After taking a pleasurable amount of time, Pix took her purchase to the front of the shop. It was always fun to buy baby gifts. A few years earlier, she used to toy with the idea of another bundle of joy herself, then remembered all the homework supervision that would entail and opted to wait for grandchildren—a wait she fervently prayed would be a long one.

Earl had come in while she'd been in the back and was buying a paper.

“How are you, Pix?" he asked. "Quite a business yesterday at the camp. Samantha was great with the kids. Really kept them calmed down."

“Fine, thank you, and thank you for saying that about Samantha. I'll tell her. She's always wanted to go into science, marine biology, but she's so good with people."

“Maybe she'll figure out a way to combine the two. Now I've got to go pick up something to eat at the IGA or I'll start to get malnutriated.”

Earl looked anything but. Pix smiled. Jill didn't. Hadn't they patched things up yet?

The next exchange made it clear they hadn't. "So, I'll see you about eight?" Earl asked.

“I'm afraid I can't make it tonight. Maybe another time," Jill answered. The time, from her expression and tone, could possibly be well into the new century.

“Okay" Earl flushed and left quickly.

Pix was tempted to ask what was going on, but Jill did not look as if she'd welcome inquiries into her personal life at the moment. She rang up

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