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August 15 - August 18, 2021
Innes would take them from her mouth and stub them out.
Innes abusive?
Galloway’s in your pocket? I never knew.
shoulder. Go and run yourself a bath, man. A bath? Fill it up.
This does not bode well!
You’re the new teacher, she said. At the school. Yes. Alice Green. Nice to meet you.
Aye, Sandy Bell. What about him? Found. Dead. Done himself in. Up at the Distillery.
and chewed on an apple someone had left on the table. When she was finished she washed her hands and threw the apple core onto the carpet and stepped on it heavily so that its flesh mashed into the fibres.
Alice is weird!
Officer Galloway of the Northern Constabulary.
Jessie's dad!
Margo had planned the whole thing, and Donald always made sure that Margo got what she wanted.
The leak, he managed, his tongue thick and pickled. I leaked the story just like you asked.
What?! Moodie set him up!
This was when Innes needed to get away from his old life in the city and start somewhere new, where nobody knew him or what he’d been accused of.
And Young Bobby was already dead. Innes had pushed him and now the man was dead.
He had never met Alice’s father but she had told him enough about the man. Innes feared what would happen to Alice’s mental state if she found out he had traced her now to this place where the world was supposed to be peaceful.
Her mother’s exile was more self-inflicted and now they were both absent from the girl’s life.
Poor Jessie!
Wherever there was boredom and poverty you could make money. Places like Kilmarnock and Dingwall and Arbroath.
Moodie would eventually get down the mountain that day and dry off and warm up but he had despised Donald ever since. Donald had just never been smart enough to figure it out.
You’ll be a dead man, said Donald. If you don’t bring that boy back to his mother, you’re a dead man.
Why don’t you go into the living room and light the fire? I’ll peel the potatoes and put the turkey in the oven then I’ll join you. Donald left her in the kitchen humming under her breath to the children’s choir on the radio.
I have a bad feeling....
Innes was hammered. I think someone slipped him something in his drink.
I get chocolates every day of the week. I only keep the good ones. These – he held out the box – can be donated to your colleagues.
Bit rude!
You were correct though. I feel much better having that off my chest.
Very funny!
I can smell you. Do you know that? When I walk past your desk I can actually smell your body. And if I can smell it, so can everyone else.
Not very tactful!
I’ve got a few payments coming off that I can’t cover. Just one-off things. Need to put the car in the garage. My electricity bill’s gone up. That kind of thing. How much do you need? Quite a bit.
Sounds dodgy!
This is my inheritance you’re talking about. And it’s hers. It’s not right.
Selfish!
So the bedrooms were empty, there was no doubt about that, and Innes had nothing to worry about there.
The American!
the American came down hard, his head splitting open on the wooden frame of the bed.
Is this the 2nd death Innes accidentally causes?
Wouldn’t that be an excellent class project? To catch the wee mouse?
Oh dear!.....
Ever since she was a little girl herself, Alice always had a keen sense of justice. Crimes deserved punishment. When she was in the Girl Guides they’d taught them the passage in the Bible that talked about taking an eye for an eye. Alice had nodded along. It made good sense to her then and it did now. She had not forgiven the children who complained and made up lies about her swearing in class. But this would go some way to achieving justice. And it would be good.
She has some horrible plan!
Well Laura, why don’t we find out? See if you are smarter than a mouse. Try to get the chocolate out. Laura scrunched her forehead. Try to get the chocolate out?
What?!
It was in his sleep that Donald’s father died.
Did he die or did Donald kill him?...
He smothered his thin, dying father quickly, and neither of them made a sound about it.
I knew it!
Found a new two-litre bottle of milk in the fridge and added a splash to her coffee before pouring the rest of the fresh milk down the sink and binning the bottle.
She has a problem!
This mouse – she held it out – is what will happen to you if you do not make good decisions. Life will crush you. It will trap you. And you will sink.
She's a psycho!
You could do me a favour by pissing off out of my life. This is my house! You get out. You know what I think? It’s a real shame you weren’t working in that hotel when it burned down. A real shame. That’s what I think.
Poor Jessie!
The men took him down the garden path and they were laughing and talking to one another in low voices. Ignoring Innes when he spoke.
They're laughing.. is it like for a stag do?
It’s a blackening.
and it sliced clean through his standing limb just below the kneecap.
Bloody hell! That's grim!
She could see now that the hills were on fire.
Is this to cover up Innes?
Galloway drove quickly although he knew the girl would still be dead when he got there.
Poor Olive...
They were calling it full suspension pending an investigation into her professional conduct.
Innes wondered what kind of relationship he had been in for this to be a better alternative to marrying her.
Donald was being arrested under suspicion for murder and perverting the course of justice. For insurance fraud and arson. For dangerous driving and manslaughter.
Alice’s father had not yet been in touch although she supposed he would probably have been released by now. She had not heard from him;
I think she actually killed her mother!..
You must realise that everyone around here thinks you’re insane.
She thought about shouting after him, about telling him he was useless and had never made her happy and that she was pregnant with his child and that she would kill him.
Is any of this true?
