Crow Country Chapter 25

I was woken by dad's voice coming through the front door. Mr Mortlock who was exhausted and relieved to see that my dad didn't tell the police. Dad  picked up Mr Mortlocks blood-stained clothes and asked him to leave. I took the clothes off him and told him to go to bed. I placed the clothes in the flaming stove and watched them turn into pitch black charcoal. Dad then handed me his clothes to wash. Once he had left, I searched his pockets like my mother always did before washing clothes. I dug through the material until my fingertips felt soft fur. I pulled out the fluffy package to find that it probably was something wrapped in possum fur- this is what Jimmy gave to dad before he died! I didn't know what to do with it. Burn it, I thought but then another voice that didn't sound like me told me No! At that moment I became conscious that I was Sadie Hazzard. I found a cigarette tin in a pocket of a cardigan so I squashed the package into the tin and left the house. Beneath a sapling of a small tree, I started to dig a hole for the tin to sit in. When I was done, on the base of the tree, I carved the letter 'S'.