[{"node":{"title":"Lingard164","Collections":"Chapter 17","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard164","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Detective, Political","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard164","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/Lingard164_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffscrew , thinking as he worked in the dark garadge of the possible\ndeath that would result? No, Brian had could not have done it since he had been in bed, but\nhe might have sent his friends, the two who had beaten Kevin up.\nKevin was g not sure who they were. He had not seen their faces and\nthey had not spoken. They might be any two boys he had played with\nor gone to school with or they might never have seen him before.\nThey were anonymous; he could not decide if they were capable of it.\n\nMr Blake reached for his pipe, lit it, puffed slowly, staring\ninto the grate. He was thinking of the letters that had come four\nmornings in a row. 'You have been warned.' He could almost smell\nthe singeing paper.as he had burned them. Many wrote letters and\ndid not act, but then some did.\n\nThe detective looked from one face to the other.\n\n\"Have any of you any idea who might have done this?\" he asked.\n\nSadie started, roused from her thoughts. \"No,\" she said quickly.\n\"I mean, who would want to do a thing like that deliberately?\"\n\n\"That's what I'm trying to find out.x Have you any suggestions,\nMr Blake?\"\n\nMr Blake shook his head. \"I don't know anyone who would want to\nkill me,\" he said with a little smile.\n\n\"No enemies?\"\n\n\"Not that I know of.\"\n\n\"Someone must have been after you for something. Are you a memebe r\nof any political party or organisation?\"\n\n\"No. I'm not a joining man. Organisations aren't in my line.\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]