Farewell and a Jew
A KEN FRANE MYSTERY
Short Story by David
Williams
The drinking dens of Cardiff Docks were infamous.
There were smugglers and pirates and watch repairers and jewellers. Ken Frane
had been a hard drinker whilst working for the force and especially in the run
up to his divorce.
He would often walk through Cathays Cemetery and
Western Cemetery if he was up Ely looking at the gravestones of those he once
knew and imagining himself under the tombstone himself. The Long Sleep. He had
remembered his own father up the Rhondda calling out “Take me precious Lord”
because he had had enough
“It’s how they taught Hebrew when they brought all
the Jews over to Palestine after the war. They wanted a quick method to get the
basics of the language over quickly, I was hoping that that was the way they
were going to teach it”
He began by saying a few words in Hebrew, but he
then said a few sentences in Welsh before launching into an impassioned and
powerful speech against the Zionist State of Israel to quote his words. Ken was
transfixed. This gentleman had a definite aura about him, and he was now
looking as intently at him as he had been looked at about two hours previously.
"We have reason to believe that you were involved in
the assassination of David Levinson this afternoon. You do not have to say
anything but, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned
something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in
evidence.”
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