The Dead Yard by Adrian McKinty

Author:Adrian McKinty
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780743289269
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Gerry frowns at him and looks at me significantly as if to say “Can you believe he is seeing my daughter?”

“Think they mean Salem, the witch place,” I say.

Gerry shows his gleaming teeth, as disarming as Mack the Knife’s pearly whites.

“Salem has a wonderful Halloween parade. It’s very scary. Kit used to be afraid to go, didn’t you, Kit?” Gerry says, making a ghostly groan.

“I thought there were no witches; wasn’t the whole thing a huge mistake?” I ask.

Sonia nods at me in agreement.

“It’s in very poor taste. If you think about it, it’s the site of an awful massacre of innocents. It would be like holding a

jokey parade to remember Auschwitz. I, for one, certainly wouldn’t go there,” Sonia says, huffing at Gerry for pooh-poohing the Nantucket idea.

Gerry knows he has to make amends.

“The cabin then. It’s lovely this time of year.”

“Everything is nice about it, except the name,” Sonia replies, not completely won over.

“How many times do I have to tell you? It wasn’t my doing. That’s the real name of the actual place,” Gerry says defensively and looks at me with an impish grin.

“Oh, the fucking suspense,” I almost say sarcastically but instead: “What is the name?”

“The Dead Yard,” Gerry announces with fiendish satisfaction.

“Unusual,” I add, playing along.

“It used to be railway land. On the old Maine-Boston Atlantic line. And at certain points along the tracks they needed a clearing to put damaged or unused rail cars, so they’d just fell a big chunk of forest and leave the cars there in what they called a ‘dead yard.’ Of course, the train tracks are long gone now. Sad. Passenger trains don’t go to Maine at all now. You might have noticed the old ruined rail bridge over the Merri-mack in downtown Newburyport.”

“I hadn’t noticed,” I say quickly before Gerry can trot out sic transit gloria mundi. “But I have to agree with you, Mr. McCaghan, that it’s a real shame to see railways disappearing.”

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