THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE




EVIDENCE

More than a hole it was a gap in the fence.
‘Let’s go in.’
‘I’ve always wanted to,’ she said.
As we passed between an outbuilding and the main building a man up ahead trotted away right behind a corner.
‘Listen,’ I said.
‘What? I can’t hear anything.’
‘Listen.’
A man’s voice. A pigeon flapping in another room.
‘There’s someone else in here.’
We saw a man walk across an opening the far end of an adjoining corridor. He stopped.
‘Alright?’ he said. ‘You just wandering around?’
‘Yeh, you find anything interesting?’
He didn’t say. A woman’s voice and he disappeared from out the doorway.
We went up stairs through rooms across a walkway and up onto the roof. She took a photograph of me with Packers Field in the background.
‘Evidence,’ she said.