2024-02-02
6 分钟Mary is at the inn but what's happening - and why are people talking about murder?
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I've not seen my uncle much since I arrived.
I'm glad because he's got a violent temper and treats my aunt badly.
This morning I've been exploring the country around the inn.
There is nothing but heather and grass for miles.
In the distance, I can see the marsh.
It was in this wild and lonely land that my uncle lived as a boy with his two brothers.
Last night, he told me their story.
If you had lived here, you would have taken to drink like I did.
It makes you do things.
I had a family once.
A father, mother, two brothers.
But each one of them disappeared one way or another.
My father was hanged.
He killed a man.
My brother jem is clever, but they'll catch him too, and hang him.
My brother Matthew, well, he drowned in the marsh.
They found him one summer when the marsh dried up.
When I get back to the inn, my uncle is there.