Crimson Tears Chapter 3: Spot's story

"Little sistah?" Said Jack in surprise, "What sistah? I didn't knoa had a sistah."

"I thought she was dead a long time ago." Spot sighed and started thtory of his dark past.

"Ten years ago when I was six, I lived in Johnstown Pennsylvania wie muddah, faddah, two sistahs an grandfaddah. Johnstown was in a valleid a rivah right down da middle. Farther upstream da rivah was dammed up.
One mornin da town got a telegram dat da dam had broke but da mayor saiot ta worry an dat it was just a hoax, so nobody did any thing. Well lateat day bout 3 in da afternoon der was dis sound like a million trainomin down da rivah an a huge wall a water rushed down da valley an toout most a dah town. Our house was higher up so me an my sistah Sophiurvived but me muddah, faddah, grandfaddah an younger sistah Katerina werwept away. Farther down rivah der was a bridge an all da debris clogged ugainst da bridge an stopped da flood. Dat was good but da flood had swepast railroads and steel factory's so der were some trains an razor wire iid da debris an…….people were trapped to. Some people were trapped near dop an dey got out if dey were still alive but udders like me muddah arandfaddah were alive but no one could get dem lose. I talked ta both em. Grandfaddah gave me the black and gold cane dat his faddah had giveim, sayin dat I was da man of da family so I should have it. Me Muddaave me da key she wore every day a her life. She said ta wear it next te heart so dat she would be able ta find me an look in on me from heaven.
By den oil had leaked out from somewheres an caught on fire. Da peopltill trapped in da wreckage burned ta death. Gawd it was awful. Any way maddah's body washed ashore near da bridge and no ever found Katerina. I
guess she lived but we didn't know dat so Sophia an I took what money would find from da house an caught a train ta Jersey City, New Jersey tind work. We found a place wid an old cook. She would let us stay wid hef Sophia helped her cook an I found a job being, of course, a newsie. Dient on fer quite some time, till I was bout seven, a year before I meou, Jack. One night Sophia was walkin back from a friends houshen….she….she was raped. Da guy didn't kill her but said if she told, hould know. She recovered but den she found out she was pregnant. Shorked as well as she could an da cook was nice. Den she started ta geizzy an fevers an stuff an one day she went inta labor. Da cook knew ittle about birthen so she helped but da baby was born dead. Sophia wayin so she told me the name a da man dat raped her. A man named James
Scott. She knew his name cuz she had met him through one a her friends. Dehe died. She was 14. I went ta da man an told him I knew he had done it ahen I was bigger an older I would come an kill him. I know dat was stupiut I was mad.

Well just a few weeks ago I got a letter. It was from Katerina. Shad only been four when da flood swept her away but somehow she survived.
How she found me I got no idea but she said dat we should meet at da
Brooklyn Bridge da next day at dusk. I was a little late but I was sappy. I thought all my family was dead but she was alive. As I came ta dridge I found her bleeding to death from a gun-shot wound. She was alivut not for long. She said she was glade ta finally see her brother beforhe died. I knew she was my sistah cuz she had my blue eyes, sandy browair and smirk. Wid her last breath she told me da man dat shot her waalled James Scott. Da only reason he told her was so Spot Conlon woulnow who destroyed his family. He raped Sophia cuz he knew it would kiler eventually an den he shot Katerina."

By now the sun was almost set and by some trick of the light the rayf the dying sun turned the tears on Spot's face a blood crimson.

"Jackie-boy I wanna get dis guy so bad but he would probably kill mo." Spot wiped the tears from his face with one sleeve and said "Thanker listening Jackie-boy."

"No problem." Jack replied.

"Jack I'm gonna go back ta Brooklyn tomorrah."

Jack sighed and said "Ok Spot."

Spot gave a wry smile and said "I guess dat's dat." And he and Jaclimbed off the roof and into the lodging house.

"No Spot Conlon. That is not that" said a strange person who haecretly heard the whole exchange.