<> Chapter 14 Lingard Estate 1972 Linen Hall Library Thursday, March 10, 2016 TIFF Lingard132 Manuscript Kicked, Rafferty English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard132 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard132_1.jpg LHL Archive 124 tricks, partly enjoying the exercise of outwitting possible shadowers. There was a bit of him that enjoyed exciteemntment, even danger. Sadie understood it, shared it. It added spice to their meetings, made them laugh together. When he was coming home at tea-time that day he met Kate. She hailed him as he was coming off the bus. He stood and waited for her reluctantly. "Your mother's had her baby," said Kate. "A wee girl. They were looking all over for you this afternoon and they couldn't find you anywhere. They had to get Brede from the nursery to look after the wee ones." "I must be getting home then." He lengthened his step. "Hey, wait for us," said Kate. "It's a bit late to be running now. What do you do with yourself all day?" "Nothing much." "You must do something." He shrugged. He slowed his step to let Kate walk beside him. She would run if he did not. She could hang on like a dog with its teeth on a bone. "You don't seem to have much time for your old friends now." "Some of them are no longer my friends." Kevin pointed to his headtouched his bandagde "I don't like getting kicked in the head." "It wouldn't be friends that did that." "Kate, I know who did it." "You're thinking it's Brian Rafferty, aren't you? He says you've been going round blackening his nameslandering him. He's not pleased." Text