Todos los capítulos de The Luna They Buried: Capítulo 41 - Capítulo 50

I sat in the harbor office with the cup going cold in my hands and the mind-link wide open and the man across from me with his grey eyes on the table.“Say it again,” I said.“I said it three times,” Declan said. “In the hall in December, in front of the Alpha and the whole co-op, with your sister standing in front of me. And the third time it broke and it was not her who broke it.” He looked up. “I have been telling this village for a year that she rejected me. I have been letting them believe it. I have been letting her believe it. And the truth is that she came to me in the harbor office and told me the Alpha had forced her and I did not believe her, and I told her I did not want the bond, and I said it in front of the whole co-op because I wanted her to hurt the way I was hurting.”The office was very quiet. Down on the pier somebody was coiling a rope and the sound of it came in through the window.“Why did you not believe her?” I said.“Because I was a fool and because I was fri

Father Byrne opened the church door at half past one in the morning in his nightshirt with a candle and did not say a word. He looked at the safe mud on my boots and the charter in my arms and the two of us standing on his steps like drowned things, and he stood aside and let us in.We put the ledger and the charter and the page on the table in the vestry. He read the page first and then the ledger and then he sat back and looked at the ceiling."The page is a record of the vote of 1921," he said. "It gives the number to the family of Maeve and it makes her Alpha and it says the ring is the seal of the seat. And the ledger is eighteen years of rent paid to a man who owns the shore." He put his hand flat on the table. "There is a thing in the ledger that you have not seen. Look at the first page again. The sum of one hundred pounds on the first of May 1962 and the signature of Ahern. And then turn to the back and look at the last page with writing on it."I turned to the back. The last

The fire had burned down to embers and the rain had stopped and the kitchen was quiet.Declan did not move from where he was crouched in front of his son. His hands were still on Cormac's knees and his face had gone the colour of the ash in the grate."Say that again," he said."She told me the woman in the black boots was my mother," Cormac said. "She told me in the hall tonight. She said, Cormac, there is a thing you should know before the co-op meets on Saturday, and she said it in the voice she uses when she is being kind and she is never kind." He wiped his face with the back of his hand. "She said, the woman who was found in the harbor tonight was called Bridget and she was banished from this territory in 1988 and she came back in March. And she said, before she was banished she was your mother and your father sent her away."Declan stood up. He walked to the window and stood with his back to us and his hands at his sides."Cormac," he said. "Your mother was called Deirdre and s

Ronan came down to the cottage at four in the morning with a canvas bag over his shoulder and his nightshirt under his coat, and he came in the back way through the garden because the men at the gate were still there."Padraig is at the shop and he has been to the hall," he said. "There is a window on the sea side that does not catch and he got in through it and he has the cup and he has taken it up to Nora and she is wrapping it in a tea towel and putting it in a box with a lid on it. The bus to Athlone goes at seven and Nora's nephew is driving it and he will take the box to Margaret and bring the package back on the evening bus.""Then we have the cup and the rubbing and the ring," I said. "What have you got in the bag?"Ronan put the bag on the table and took out a notebook. It was not the big brown book of the charter. It was a small notebook with a black cover and a rubber band round it and it was worn soft at the corners."The second notebook," he said. "I told you about it on

Declan was gone two hours. I sat at the kitchen table with the notebook and the weight and the phone and the fire going down and did not sleep, and at six in the morning he came back with his coat wet and his face grey and said, "He knows. I told him all of it. He sat in that chair and he did not say a word for half an hour and then he got up and went out to the boat and he has been sitting on it since.""Where is he now?""On the Cormorant at the end of the pier with his back to the harbor." Declan sat down heavily in the chair. "I told him about the false bond and the margin note and the boy being the proof. And I told him about his mother and the grave on the hill. And he looked at me at the end of it and he said, Da, did you know that the Alpha told me she was my mother before you told me she was not." He put his hands over his eyes. "He is twenty two years old and he has been in the hand of that woman since he was fourteen and he asked me the one question I could not answer. He s