The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

Author:Kevin Barry [Barry, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Caden Spargo knelt and put a whiskey glass to the thin wall frame and cupped his ear to it and listened; Kitto Pengelly sat on the edge of the bunk and picked at his remaining teeth with a knife’s tip and watched –

Fuck they sayin then?

Patient an’ relax, boy.

Fuck you in the arse with a candle like yer hoor mother.

An’ I’d be as grateful for it as she were. Now hush and let me listen, boy. I’m waitin on a price be named.

Hey but Caden?

Shut yer fucken cakehatch, Kit!

Yeah but who’s died off and gone to heaven and made this ol’ cunt the gaffer then? Ask thysel’ that ever?

He took you from the gutter, did he not? Down Bristol dock? You was sellin your hole for an ham roll.

A libel afore noon. You’re outdoin yoursel’.

Hush now … Okay then … There’s two of ’em wants findin … A man and a woman.

I’m tirin of this ol’ game.

What else you got on then?

I’m thinkin on a parcel of land, actually.

What you know from land?

Plenty, actually.

My hairy arse! What you gonna do? Set up an hog ranch?

Might do.

You’ll be sat there? In the pale moonlight? Pullin at your snib-end and the hogs has got fever and is atein each other alive.

You got a nasty turn to your imaginin, Caden.

Aw hush and let me listen, Kit!

Okay then.

He’s an Irish has gone south.

Filthy bastards. I hate an Hibernian. Always has done.

She’s the man’s wife.

A wife is it?

Kitto Pengelly, his interest at last aroused, came and knelt beside his countryman –

Dirty Irish, he said. Usually they’s more interested in the drink. Gimme that glass, Caden …

Hush but?

Blood vengeance? Is what’s asked for?

The Irish go ahead and do your worst, boys. Wifey-wifey brought back in the one piece.

Must be she’s a looker hey?

We’ll find out. There’s photographs.

Oh aye?

Hush now. Note’s being set.

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