Who Killed Uncle Alfie? by Samantha Price

Author:Samantha Price [Price, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samantha Price

Chapter 10

Early that evening, two elderly Amish ladies walked into a bar and everyone turned and stared. Ettie and Elsa-May ignored everyone and walked up to the man behind the bar and ordered one soda and one iced tea.

“You ladies from around here?” the bartender asked once he’d delivered their drinks.

“No, we’re not. We’re looking for a man.”

“Just one?” he asked, now resting his elbows on the bar, leaning over looking interested.

“One particular man. His name is… what was it again, Ettie?”

“His name is Joe Mulligan.”

“Joe’s here every day.” He leaned even closer to them and pointed to a man sitting in a booth by himself with a beer in his hand. “That’s him there. Does he owe you money?”

Ettie stared at Joe and then looked at the bartender. “No. He doesn’t.”

“Thank you,” Elsa-May said to the man.

The bartender straightened up and grabbed a cloth and wiped the counter while Ettie and Elsa-May took hold of their drinks and headed to Mulligan.

“Mr. Mulligan?” Ettie asked.

He looked up. “Who’s askin’?”

“I’m Ettie Smith and this is my sister, Elsa-May Lutz.”

“What can I do for you?”

“Can we sit down a minute?” Elsa-May asked.

When he nodded, Ettie slipped behind the table and slid across leaving enough room for her sister.

“We’re here to ask you about Alfie Graber.”

“I thought as much when I saw you were Amish. Alfie said he used to belong to the Amish.”

“That’s right he did.”

“What do you want with me?”

“We heard some talk that you might have owed Alfie money?”

“Have you come to collect?” he asked.

Ettie shook her head. “No.”

“Not at all,” Elsa-May said.

“We’re not here about the money. All we’re trying to do is find out who murdered him.”

“It wasn’t me if that’s what you want to know.”

“The police arrested one of our friends…”

“He was Alfie’s nephew.”

“Yes, and he was going to look after Alfie and then he got on the wrong bus.”

“And after Alfie was found murdered, the police thought that our friend did it and we’re trying to find some kind of proof he didn’t do it, or find the killer.”

"I hit Alfie's car. I rear-ended him. I knew I was in the wrong and I told him I’d get the money, but I didn’t know how I was going to get it."

“Did you know Alfie before you crashed into his car?” Elsa-May asked.

“Yeah, we knew each other from when I had my car yard.”

He tapped a cigarette out of his packet and offered one to Ettie and Elsa-May and they shook their heads. He placed the cigarette in his mouth and lit it.

After he inhaled and then blown a cloud of smoke up into the air, he said, “A couple of years ago I had to close the business like a lot of people had to do, so money has been tight since then. When I hit Alfie’s car a few months back—his car wasn’t insured and my car sure wasn’t either ‘cause I didn’t have the money. I didn’t know how I was gonna come up with that money.

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