<> Chapter 3 Lingard Estate 1972 Linen Hall Library Thursday, March 10, 2016 TIFF Lingard026 Manuscript McCoy, Brede English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard026 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard026_1.jpg LHL Archive 24 She said good-night to Kate and ran all the way to her house. Her mtoher was still sitting in the kitchen mending.a sock. She looked up with a sock in her hand as Brede came in. "What's up? Anything happened, Brede?" "Have the childrenkids come in?" Mrs McCoy nodded. "I've sent them up to bed." Brede hesitated a moment. She looked at her mother's tired face and knew that she could not give her anything more to worry about. She would talk to Kevin. "Kevin hasn't been back?" "No. Not a sign of him. Well, he'll just have to starve for his meal's ruinedburnt to a cinder. " Brede went up to the room that she shared with her three sisters. They were in bed; one was asleep, the other two were playing cards. Brede took a book and sat by the window but she did not read. Every time she heard a step in the street she looked down to see if it was Kevin. Text