<> Chapter 10 Lingard Estate 1972 Linen Hall Library Thursday, March 10, 2016 TIFF Lingard097 Manuscript Beaten up English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard097 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard097_1.jpg LHL Archive 89 "Is he all right?” "More or less. Mr Kelly found him lying outside the scrapyard late last night. He was unconscious. Mr Kelly called an ambulance and they look him to hospital.” "Is he/there now?" "They let him home this morning.” "Was it because of me, Brede? Was it?” "Yes, I think so.” Brede’s voice was scarcely audibly. Her eyes were unhappy. "Who did it?” "There were three of them. One was Brian Rafferty. He used to be Kevin's freind." "Three of them! Coawards! If I got my hands on them!” "They’d do the same to you." Sadie finished her coffee with one gulp. "Did he ask you to come and tell me?” "No. He doesn't know I’m here. He's going out to meet you, Sadie I know it.” Brede raised her eyes to Sadie's. "He'll not let you down. But I've come to ask you not to meet him.” "But that uould mean I’d be letting him down,” cried Sadie. "But you don't want him to be beaten up again, do you?” Text