[{"node":{"title":"Lingard080","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard080","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Fight, Barricades","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard080","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/Lingard080_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff74\n\nAnd the blood would be Kevin's.\n\n\"Kevin,\" he said,\" I think you should get on home. I know you don't\nwant to fight my father.\"\n\n\"Course not.\"\n\n\"And I'm taking Sadie home. Now!\"\n\nTommy jerked his head towards the end of the street. Both Sadie\nand Kevin noticed and what he meant got his message. The two older menMr Jackson had not seen the others approachingthat reinforcements were at hand.\n\n\"You're right,Tommy, \" said Sadie. \"It's time we were getting\ncalled it a day. Good night, Kevin.\"\n\nHeKevin hesitated a moment.\n\n\"Good night, Kevin,\" she said again, her eyes on the approaching\nmen.\n\n\"Good night Sadie.\" HeKevin said good night to Sadie and Tommy then walked quickly off in the opposite direct-\nion. Tommy held back his father. Mr Mullet required no restraining;\nhis feet were already turning homewards.\n\nKevin took the first turning and then zigzagged through the streets\ntowards his own area. He had not wanted to leave in a way. but His\nold instinct of wanting to fight it out had been there very strongly,\nbut he knew it would have been stupid. He didn't want to fight\nSadie's father and brother. Not that Tommy would nothave fought him any-\nway. They had no reason to fight one another.\n\nHe looked up and saw a glow in the sky. A fire. Oh well, there were often fires.There was noise ahead too: the sound of rioting. He skirted the barbed-wire barricades. Spoke to\n\nTwo policeman who asked him where he was going. Home, he said.\n","Type":"Text"}}]