Where There is Evil
“My mind was in turmoil. With a kaleidoscope of snowflakes dashing against my windscreen, it seemed as if I was venturing through a tunnel of whirling elements with no clear view ahead. This image has stayed with me, and it sums up the state of mind I was in during the days following the conversation I had had with my father.
Over and over, even when I was asleep, I heard the words he had used, like an interminable tape-recording. Two assurances he had given me before we had left Granny Jenn...y’s bedroom kept echoing through my brain. I had frantically demanded to know if he’d been interviewed when Moira disappeared. ‘Oh, aye, I wis.’ He nodded quickly. ‘I telt them the same as Grandpa. I didn’t even know her.’ These two statements disturbed me because I knew he was lying. I didn’t know how I could feel so sure of it, but my conviction that my father and Moira had known each other was overwhelming.
In the meantime, there was the funeral to get through, but before that I managed to pull myself together enough to telephone Aunt Margaret, my mother’s sister.MoreLess
Over and over, even when I was asleep, I heard the words he had used, like an interminable tape-recording. Two assurances he had given me before we had left Granny Jenn...y’s bedroom kept echoing through my brain. I had frantically demanded to know if he’d been interviewed when Moira disappeared. ‘Oh, aye, I wis.’ He nodded quickly. ‘I telt them the same as Grandpa. I didn’t even know her.’ These two statements disturbed me because I knew he was lying. I didn’t know how I could feel so sure of it, but my conviction that my father and Moira had known each other was overwhelming.
In the meantime, there was the funeral to get through, but before that I managed to pull myself together enough to telephone Aunt Margaret, my mother’s sister.MoreLess
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