November Rain by Donald Harstad

Author:Donald Harstad [Harstad, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC022000 Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
ISBN: 9781629537313
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Published: 2015-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

After they thanked us and left, we found ourselves with much of the day ahead of us with nothing to do. There was no point in going back up to Highgate until we collected the girls after classes. We decided to see at least one sight. We started walking west, on High Street. Carson needed an adaptor for English current for his shaver. On the way, we stopped and bought our very own cell phone. The first person I called was Trowbridge, and gave him the new number.

Kensington Palace was right across the street. We walked through the park, which was, by remarkable coincidence known as Kensington Park, and found ourselves standing in front of the south gate. It was kind of bleak, with the leaves leaving the trees. The stark black wrought ironwork, with gilded tops, was nice. There were three small notes attached to the gate, each with a flower. Not the flood of flowers I remembered seeing on TV when Princess Diana died, but the gesture was still poignant. Especially since we’d found out that Emma was dead just last night.

After a few moments, Carson said, “Maybe we could do something more cheerful?”

“Yeah. Let’s walk over this way. There’s that big gold thing over there. Let’s see what that is.”

We passed a white statue of Queen Victoria at the intersection of two paths. We read the inscription, just to make sure.

“Wasn’t she the one who was married to Prince Albert?”

Carson and I had gone to the same high school. “You read that in Lit class? About her as a young girl?”

“Yeah, I think I did. He was . . . from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, I remember having to remember that for the final.”

“The shit you think you’ll never use,” I said.

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