She laid a hand on my leg. “I knew, when I saw him there without Lindsay, and just in and out like that — I knew it wasn’t going to be good.”
We drove in silence for a few minutes until, at a red light, Jill put into words the question we were both thinking: “What happens now?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “I just don’t know.”
Once we were in the house and Kyla was tucked away for the night, I sat down at the laptop I kept at Jill’s, figuring I’d look for more news about what had happened earlier that night.
I went to my inbox first. There was an email from Marlon Kennedy. It had been sent at 7:12 p.m. I shivered as I considered the reality that Kennedy had sent the email in the minutes before he crossed the street and returned to the alley for the last time.
The email was cryptic. It read, “I promised, and I know you’ll want to see this.”
Below that line of text was a photo of tally marks: two groups of five … and two more lines.
And below that, Kennedy had typed: “Twelve marks.”
Acknowledgements
I am indebted again to Dr. Adam Vyse for his wisdom; to Mike O’Connor for his knowledge and encouragement; and to the editorial team at Dundurn under the steady, guiding hand of Jenny McWha. I found Ken Rockburn’s book We Are as the Times Are: The Story of Le Hibou both helpful and a delightful read, and the online notes for A History of Folk Music in English Canada by Gary Cristall were also useful. Special thanks to the owners of the Amantea Restaurant that, when I began this project, sat above what was once the basement home of The Depression; and to Chad Ares from Parm, which is the newest (and very cool) incarnation of that location.
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