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Only as he arrived at Halki to meet Athina did Day consider that he might not be welcome at The Black Acorn. It was also possible that the bar might be closed, its former customers wanting nothing more to do with the place. Kostas’s brother and sister were under arrest, Sotiris charged with armed robbery and attempted murder, and his sister with pre-meditated murder. Who would blame Kostas for taking some space? How difficult would it now be for Kostas and Anna to hold up their heads in the community? The Black Acorn would be the object of local gossip for quite a while.
Day could not know, either, whether his own involvement in the arrests was common knowledge. How might a man react to someone who was responsible for his siblings’s public downfall? Welcome or not, however, Day had de
