Blood On the Wood
“A tall man was sitting beside him; both of them wore dark suits and bowler hats. Carol was waiting at the front door. The tall man got down and shook hands with her. Adam said something I didn’t hear, turned the gig and drove it away down the side of the house, probably to the stable yard.
When I got to the door Carol introduced the thin man as Timothy Galway, the solicitor friend from London who knew about criminal work. I liked the look of him. He was in his thirties, calm and measured in the... way he moved but with observant eyes. I imagined him as a fly-fisherman, standing long hours beside a river, then the sudden silver dash of a trout pulled into the air. His hair was brown with a hint of red to it, enough for interest but not so much as to startle the customers.
‘Mr Galway wants to talk to all of us.’ She was trying hard to be calm, but looked as tight-stretched as the paper over a circus hoop. I waited in the dining room while Carol took Galway upstairs. There was dust on the walnut surface of the table and the posy of white rosebuds in the middle had dried out and hardened like flowers in an undertaker’s window.MoreLess
When I got to the door Carol introduced the thin man as Timothy Galway, the solicitor friend from London who knew about criminal work. I liked the look of him. He was in his thirties, calm and measured in the... way he moved but with observant eyes. I imagined him as a fly-fisherman, standing long hours beside a river, then the sudden silver dash of a trout pulled into the air. His hair was brown with a hint of red to it, enough for interest but not so much as to startle the customers.
‘Mr Galway wants to talk to all of us.’ She was trying hard to be calm, but looked as tight-stretched as the paper over a circus hoop. I waited in the dining room while Carol took Galway upstairs. There was dust on the walnut surface of the table and the posy of white rosebuds in the middle had dried out and hardened like flowers in an undertaker’s window.MoreLess
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