[{"node":{"title":"Lingard155","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard155","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Shadow, Knife","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard155","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard155_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff147\n\n\"Bossy this morning, aren't you?\"\n\n\"There's times you're needing a bit of bossing.\" She held the\ncup for him whilst he drank. His own hand shook when he tried to\ntake it from her.\n\n\"Maybe I am a bit tired,\" he said.\n\nWhilst he sleptshe washed Brian Raffertys' blood out of Kevin's shirt.\nShe watched the dirty water run out down the drain. Water tinged with\nblood. Suddenly she felt a bit sick herself. She pushed open the\nwindow over the sink. Mr Blake was in the back garden weeding round\nhis rose bushes. He was proud of his roses; he had told Sadie all\nthe different names though she could not remember them.\n\n\"O.K.?\" he asked.\n\nShe nodded.\n\nShe rinsed the shirt three times in clean water, wrung it out and\ntook it to the garden to hang up to dry. She strung it out , pegged it\nand stood back to examine it. Not a shadow of a stain.\n\n\"I hope he hasn't killed Rafferty,\" she said to Mr Blake. \"You\ndon't think he would, do you?\"\n\n\"It's unlikely.\"\n\nSadie knelt down beside him. \"But he might have. You never know,\nRafferty might have hit his head on the ground when he fell.\"\n\n\"It takes a lot to kill a man.\"\n\n\"Not always. It can happen in a second.\"\n\n\"Only with a gun or a knife.\"\n\n\"Kevin didn't have a knife, did he?\" said Sadie slowly. \"He\n","Type":"Text"}}]