Todos los capítulos de The Luna They Buried: Capítulo 51 - Capítulo 60

The new man arrived at nine in the morning on the Galway bus.The whole village was on the pier because the whole village had been told to be on the pier, and the Mary Rose was at the end of it with her sails up and the box with the Council's seal on the deck under a tarpaulin. Mairéad stood at the head of the pier in her black coat with her silver hair pinned up and Korkut beside her in his town coat, and there was a small grey car at the top of the slip with a driver in it who did not get out.The man who came down the pier was not Korkut. He was younger, somewhere in his forties, and he had the broad face and the small scar on the chin that I had seen before on a man in a dark jacket on the headland, and he was wearing a good coat and he was carrying a leather case.He stopped in front of Mairéad and put the case down and said, "Alpha. I am Ahern. I have come from Galway to judge this pack.""You are welcome," Mairéad said. "You have come at a difficult time.""I have come at the t

Ahern sent for me at six in the evening and I went up to the hall with Cormac's statement in my coat and the notebook and the ledger and the page.He was sitting at the long table with a lamp in front of him and his case open and papers spread across the wood, and there was a second chair pulled out."Sit down," he said. "I have been in this village all day and I have heard nine wolves and I have read the co-op's records from 1961 to this year and I have been up to the room above this hall and sat with the old woman for an hour." He put his pen down. "And I am going to tell you a thing now that is going to be worse than anything you have heard this week."I sat down."You have been telling this village that your sister was murdered," Ahern said. "She was not murdered. She was executed."The lamp flickered. I did not move."There is a thing in the old law that is not in the charter in the hall and not in the parish charter and not in the green charter you pulled out of the well. It is

I found Declan on the pier at ten o'clock with his hands in his pockets and his back to the village, and I told him the whole of it and he did not say a word until I had finished."Ask Ahern about the woman from Galway," he said."Ask Ahern about the woman from Galway." I stood beside him at the end of the pier. "And there is a thing I have not told you. In the church on the first morning, when Padraig came back from Athlone, he told me the woman who posts the letters is a wolf with a broken mark who wears a scarf to hide it. And the woman who posts the letters is not my sister. My sister is in the north. The woman in Athlone is a wolf who has been posting letters for her." I looked at him. "And there is a second thing. The black boots in my sister's cottage were worn down on the outside heel and the woman who wore them walked with a roll to the right foot. The woman in the harbor had red hair and a mark on her neck and she was dead before she went into the water. And the woman who ca

I was at the door with my coat on when Ronan said, "Wait."He was standing at the table with the green charter open and his finger on the page and his old face had gone the colour of the ash in the grate."There is a thing I have not looked at properly in fifty years," he said. "I have read this book a hundred times and I have never once looked at the hand.""What hand?""The hand that wrote the charter." He turned the book round. "Come back from the door and look at this and then you can go to Athlone."I came back. He put the lamp closer and turned the pages to the beginning and put his finger on the first line of the first page."Read the first line," he said."Whereas the wolves of Dún Aonghasa, in the county of Galway, being of one pack and one blood, do set down these laws for the keeping of the peace and the choosing of the Alpha.""Now read the last line of the same page."I read it. It was a line about the moorings and the catch and the season and it was in the same cramped l

Ronan did not answer me. He got up and went to the fire and put a sod on it and stood with his back to me and his hands on the mantelpiece."There is a thing about the ring," he said. "The ring in the tin box is the true ring and it has a name inside the band and the name is Siobhan and the date is 1921. But there is a second ring. The one in the frame in the hall is a copy and it has been on the Alpha's finger for twenty years and it has a name inside the band too." He turned round. "I have seen it. She took it off in this kitchen in 1994 when her finger swelled in the summer and she put it on the table and I picked it up and looked inside it. And the name inside the band of the copy is not Siobhan and the date is not 1921. The name inside the band of the copy is Eileen and the date is 1961."I sat at the table with the true ring on my finger."Then the copy was made in 1961," I said. "For the woman who took the seat. And the true ring was in the press in the hall from 1961 until 198