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Copyright© 2024 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 4: The Cabin
The Cabin
I’m never going to get used to calling Jackie, Edith.
Edith has the language skills of an Irish fish monger or a Regency period theater orange seller ... and the morals of an alley-cat. ‘In and out for a pound, guv.’
In the Regency Period in England a pound had the purchasing power of 2,000 dollars in todays money. Edith might have been a whore but she wasn’t a cheap whore.
Edith didn’t understand ‘things’, but she had the easy expectancy of a London slum dweller.
The longer she was with us the more we understood that she was born in London England in 1790 and most likely was run down in the fog by a handsom cab in 1807.
I think my sister died in the fall down the celler stairs in 2000 ... we were blessed with Edith at the turn of the century... 2000.
One thing was certain ... we couldn’t stay here ... in our house. Jackie had friends Edith wouldn’t understand.
“Mom?”
“Yes, David?”
“What are we going to do?”
“Go to the cabin at the lake.”
“We have a cabin?”
“A lake?” Edith said, “I can learn to swim?”
It was important to ‘get outta town.’ Daddy had been in the ‘thick of it’ ... politics, corruption and vice ... and we, mom, Jackie and I were ‘sure’ to know ‘what was what,’ and therefore, dangerous to the Powers that be.
We didn’t ... but ‘they’ couldn’t take the chance.
“We can’t take the car,” mom said. “David ... take the bags back in the hall/tunnel. I’ll reset the wall.”
In the glow of 12 volt lightbulbs ... LED’s? ... we headed in and through the Underground Railroad rooms, mom worked anothe secret door a real tunnel that went for miles. Fortunately, mom had a ‘trolley’. a wheeled cart that I piled the pirate treasure on a pushed along. I’d have hated carrying the sacks ... mostly because a collage foorball team couldn’t ... carry them. Too many and too heavy. We came out in an abandoned warehouse in a town I didn’t know.
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