There seemed nothing else to say. I watched Eleanor board the train with an intense and unplaceable sense of guilt. On an impulse, I spoke as Rebecca stepped up herself, pulling the door to.
‘I’m sorry,’ I said. ‘I didn’t mean to drive you away.’
‘You didn’t.’ She spoke leaning out of the open train-door window. ‘It’s not your fault. We just have to leave now. That’s all there is to it.’
The train began to pull out. I waved. She waved back, solemn-faced. Standing in the silence, I watched the train reach the edge of the world, and disappear.
Then I turned, and began the long walk back to Ploughman’s Lane.
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All the characters and events portrayed in this work are fictitious.
IN THE SPIDER’S HOUSE
A Felony & Mayhem “Wild Card” mystery
PUBLISHING HISTORY
First U.K. print edition (as The Spider’s House) (Orion): 2004
Felony & Mayhem print and digital editions: 2015
Copyright © 2004 by Sarah Diamond
All rights reserved
E-book ISBN: 978-1-63194-031-6
To Catherine Diamond and Anna Bowles, who helped me babysit Kevin
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