[{"node":{"title":"Lingard120","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard120","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Burned, Billboards","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard120","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/Lingard120_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff112\n\nwould probably offer her another job in a shop and she felt she could\nnot face that.\n\nIn front of the City Hall the news vendors arewere selling the morning\npapers. She saw their billboards. 'Shop burned down. Woman dead'.\n\nSo Mrs McConkey was dead. Sadie felt a wave of sickness rise in\nher throat. Why should Mrs McConkey have had to die? She had never done anyone any harm; she had leant on her counter and chatted with the women and shouted and the wilder kids, sometims giving one a clout on the ear when he got out of hand, but nothing more. SheSadie swallowed, and itthe sickness passed. She had a day ahead and\ndid not know what to do with it. She would have liked to be able\nto go and visit Kevin, to sit by his bedside for half an hour and\ntalk to him. But she could not.\n\nShe suddenly thought of Mr Blake. She would go and visittalk to him.\n","Type":"Text"}}]