[{"node":{"title":"Lingard084","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard084","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Brede, Pub","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard084","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/Lingard084_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff77\n\nHis father began to question him. Where had he been last night?\nHad he been in any trouble? What time did he come in? All the usual questions. Kevin answered\nthem with a few words, telling nothing. Brede eyed him uneasily as\nshe dried the last of the dishes.\n\nThey set off for church, the smaller children running aheadin front playing\ntag, his mother and father walking slowly behind since his mother\nnow walked slowly with difficulty. Brede carried the babyyoungest child over her\nshoulder, with Kevin beside her.\n\nWhen mass was over, the congregation loitered a while outside the\nchurch. The talk was all of the fire in Doyle's pub. Indignation\nwas running high.\n\n\"You'd think it was something new!\" said Kevin to Brede.\n\nBrede sighed, shifteding the baby higher on her shoulder. \"I'm sick of death and burning\" she said. They\nwalked home ahead of the others. Half way along their street they\nwere overtaken by Kate. She was breathless.\n\n\"I've been calling x you,\" she said.\n\n\"We didn't hear,\" said Brede. The baby cried and she joggled him\nup and down.\n\nKate eyed Kevin. \"I was wodnering what you were doing this after\nnoon. I thought we might have all gone for a picnic or something.\"\nWhat do you say?\"\n\n\"I'm busy,\" said Kevin, and he carried on up the street, leaving\nthe two girls together.\n\n\"What's up with him?\" Kate pouted.\n\n\"Maybe- \" Brede hesitated. \"Maybe you shouldn't run afterchase him\nas much, Kate. Boys don't like to be run after.\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]