Mistress Murder
“At six o’clock, it was still pitch dark when a plain blue van drove up to the ornate gates set in the stone wall. A man – a council gravedigger – got out and unlocked the gates in the beam of the van’s headlights.
The vehicle passed through and made its way along narrow tarmac roads until it reached the newest graves in one comer. Nearby was a wooden hut. Two more men got down and fetched spades, poles, and canvas from it before trudging through the squelching turf to the most recent burial plo...t.
Working with their gumboots already plastered in red earth, they erected a screen from the hessian and posts, before starting to remove the fresh soil from the grave. They laboured by the light of two paraffin lamps hung on the poles. The harsh shadows and silhouettes made an eerie pattern as the two undertaker’s men watched them from the cab of the van.
The top layers were hard going but, by the time the first flush of grey light appeared in the sky, they had got down to the drier soil and the going was easier.MoreLess
The vehicle passed through and made its way along narrow tarmac roads until it reached the newest graves in one comer. Nearby was a wooden hut. Two more men got down and fetched spades, poles, and canvas from it before trudging through the squelching turf to the most recent burial plo...t.
Working with their gumboots already plastered in red earth, they erected a screen from the hessian and posts, before starting to remove the fresh soil from the grave. They laboured by the light of two paraffin lamps hung on the poles. The harsh shadows and silhouettes made an eerie pattern as the two undertaker’s men watched them from the cab of the van.
The top layers were hard going but, by the time the first flush of grey light appeared in the sky, they had got down to the drier soil and the going was easier.MoreLess
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