[{"node":{"title":"Lingard188","Collections":"Chapter 19","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard188","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Dead, Bitterly","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard188","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/Lingard188_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff179\n\ngot bad news for you.\"\n\n\"I can see that.\" Her eyes widened. She felt that she had lived through this moment before. Has something happened to Mr Blake?\"\n\n\"Yes.\"\n\nFootsteps above now.\n\n\"What is it? Is he dead?\"\n\nMike nodded.\n\n\"He can't be dead,\" Sadie cried. \"I saw him yesterday.\"\n\n\"Someone threw a petrol bomb into his housebedroomhouse last night. He was killed outrightThe place went up in minutes and he didn't get out.\n\n\"Oh no!\" Sadie stared at himMike. It seemedwas impossible to believe.\nIt was a mistake, a dream, a nightmare.\n\n\"Swine!\" said Mike bitterly, anger blazing in his eyes. \"He never hurt anyone in his life.\"\n\nSadie sat down at the table. \"Is it true?\" she asked. Now she\nwas beginning to know that it was. The knowledge was seeping through\nto her brain.\n\nMike sat down beside her. \"I'm afraid it's true,\" he said, quietl now.\n\nSadie was weeping with her head on the table and Mike's arms round\nher shoulders when Mrs Jackson came in.\n\n\"What's going on?\"\n\n\"Sadie's had a shock, Mrs Jackson.\"\n\nSadie lifted her head. \"Mr Blake's been killed, Ma.\"\n\n\"Killed?\" Mrs Jackson put her hadn to her throat.\n\n\"His house was bombed last night.\"\n\nMr Jackson came in with his shirt hanging/over his trousers,\nfollowed by Tommy in his pyjamas.\n","Type":"Text"}}]