excerpt
involuntary emotion spreading over the citizens of Kamloops
and their houses complimenting the golden hues left by the westerly
walking sunlight. In such serene moments one could almost
feel that things could slowly fall back in their normal places and
all animosities would subside to become benevolence as the balance
of the universe might again find its place among people and
the darkness brought about by the egos of the few could slowly
dissipate so life could return to normal even in the lives of savages
and beasts.
Mary looked flushed and excited as she met Anton. She
fell in his arms and her eyes searched in his as if to find a response
to her sudden entrance, a positive nod for her loving greeting
and Anton noticed her wish in her beautiful smiling eyes and he
responded in a pleasing way.
“How are you?” she asked him “why you came back?”
“I had a little time before supper and thought of passing by
and perhaps meet you…I’m going to meet a newspaper reporter
later on and I plan to give him some detail out of Dylan’s diary…
the Kamloops Daily News has a piece about the death of Father
Thomas.”
Her mind went to what happened that night and also to
the missing siblings and was ready to remind Anton her earlier
question about their whereabouts when Anton opened up to give
her what he knew.
“I took them to the Indian Reserve on Paul Lake Road,
left them with the chief of the Band.”
“How, where you found them?” her voice showed her anxiety
about the wellbeing of the two siblings and how Anton took
them to the Reserve.
He explained to her that George had brought them to him,
that they had found George at his place and the rest of the story.
Manolis Aligizakis 