{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard076","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard076","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Bangor, Flames","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard076","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/Lingard076_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff70\n\nCHAPTER NINE\n\n\"Come over here, Sadie,\" said Mr Jackson, making a space for her between\nhimself and Tommy , for her to occupy.\n\nSadie stayed where she was, her arm resting against Kevin's.\n\n\"I'mx sorry if you've been worried about Sadie,\" said Kevin \"but\nwe went to Bangor and missed the last bus -\"\n\n\"And then we got a lift g from Kevin's Uncle Albert and his car\nbroke down,\" carried on Sadie.\n\n\"I told you there'd be some quite ordinarysimple reason for it, Da, \"\nsaid Tommy. He sounded awkward and embarrassed.\n\n\"OrdinarySimnple?\" said Mr Jackson.\n\n\"We've been scouringsearching the district for you for hours, Sadie,\"\nsaid .Mr Mullet. \"The whole street's right upset and our Linda's\nnear up the wall.\"\n\n\"Well, she'll just need to get down off it again,\" said Sadie.\n\n\"Boys, the cheek of it!\" said Mr Mullet softly. He was beginning\nto think his wife had been right all these years: Sadie Jackson was\na bad influence and would end up upcome to no good in the end. It was only his\nfriendship for Jim Jackson that had made them spend these last two\nhours scouring the streets. He would rather have been athome sleeping\nin his bed so that he would up in good time for church in the\nmorning. They had even gone to the edge of the Catholic quarter but had not\ndared to venture into it. There had been trouble over there. They\nhad seen flames shooting up in to the sky and the sound of shouting\nand then armoured cars had rumbled past. After that they had retreated.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"921"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard077","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard077","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Daughter, Fathered","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard077","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/Lingard077_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff71\n\n\"Come over here, Sadie,\" her father repeated again.\"I want no more\nof your nonsense. You've cost us grevious trouble this nightWe've been up the walls tonight. Your\nmother'll need to go to the doctor for more pills.\"\n\n\"Sure she's always at the doctor for pills anyway.\"\n\nMr Jackson lungked forward to catch hold of his daughter. She\nsidestepped. Tommy stiired uneasily wishing they could all go home\nand leave it at that. The more his father upbraided Sadie the more\ndevislish she would become. His father must know that. He would only\npush her further in to Kevin McCoy's arms.\n\n\"It's all right,\" said Sadie. \"I'm coming home now anyway but I'm\nnot going to be marched up the straighteet as if I was being taken to\nthe jail.\"\n\n\"The jail would be too good for you,\" said Mr Mullet.\n\nMr Jackson glared at Mr Mullet. There was no call for a friend\nto make a remark ab like that about your daughter. There were a\nfew remarks he could make about Linda if he chose to.\n\n\"Well, Jim, there's times a man must speak his mind,\" said Mr\nMullet. \"We've been nearly been round the bend this last two hours\nthinking of all the things that might have happened to her.\"\n\n\"Did you think the Micks a had got hold hold of me and tarred and\nfeathered me?\" giggled Sadie.\n\n\"Careful,\" said Kevin softly, squeezing her arm.\n\n\"Let's go home to bed,\" said Tommy. \"We've found Sadie and that's\nthe main thing.\"\n\n\"That's not the main thing at all,\" said Mr Jackson.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"922"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard078","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard078","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Sister, Fighting","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard078","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/Lingard078_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff72\n\n\"'Deed you're right, Jim.\" Mr Mullet shook his head. \"I know exactly how you feel agree.\"\nIf it was our Linda - '\n\n\"Well, I'm going home,\" said Tommy firmly. \"Are you coming, Sadie?\n\n\"Yes.\"\n\n\"That's right, you two go on home,\" said their father. \"Mr Mullet\nand I have some unfinished business with this fella here.\"\n\nTommy took a step over to his father. \"Now look, Da, you're not\ngoing to start fighting.\"\n\n\"If you want to go away home to your bed away you go. You don't\nseem to care who your sister's roaming about with till all hours of the\nnight with, but I do!\" Mr Jackson pushed his son away. His temper\nwas up. It seldom rose but when it did it did not subside easily.\n\nMr Mullet stepped forward. He would stand by his Brother. In\nthe lodge they were all Brethern. And confornted by a Roman Catholic\nno good Orangeman would turn tail and run. He wondered if Tommy\nwould be a good choice for their Linda after all.\n\nSadie started to laugh.  \"You're being ridiculous. What do you\nthink you're going to fight Kevin for? I went with him of my own free will. He didn't force me to go with him. I went because I wanted to. He doesn't carry on any white slave traffic.\"\n\n\"White slave traffic?\" said Mr Mullet. \"What kind of traffic is\nthat?\"\n\n\"Skip it, \"said Sadie. \"And skip the fighting too. Because if\nyou don't Kevin'll make mincemeat of the two of you no bother at all.\"\n\n\"I'm not wanting any fighting either, Mr Jackson,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"So you're a coward as well, eh?\" said Mr Mullet. \"That doesn't\nsurprise me. Any Mick who'd go sneaking off with a decent young\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"923"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard079","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard079","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Temper, Heaven","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard079","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/Lingard079_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff73\n\nProtestant girl behind her parents' back is sure to be yellow a\nin the middle.\"\n\nNow Kevin's temper soared. Sadie knew how high it could go.\nShe tried to catch his arm but he was had left her in a flash and\nwas holding Mr Mullet by the shoulders. He towered over Mr Mullet\nby about four inches.\n\n\"If you were my own age I'd bash you for that!\" Kevin shouted.\n\"But I don't pick on old men and stupid eejits for I like the odds\nto be even.\" He released Mr Mullet.\n\n\"Old man?I I'm not an old man. I was only forty-five last\nmonth.\"\n\nTommy rolled his eyes upwards. \"For heavens's sake, let's go\nhome. Ma'll be taking even more pills x if we don't.\"\n\n\"I'm not going home till I sort this brat out,\" sad Mr Jackson,\n\"and you an needn't think it. By the time I'm done with him he'll\nnot come near my daughter again. Right, Bill?\"\n\nMr Mullet moved forward less enthusiastically now. He was beginning\nto think Tommy might be right. It might be better to go home. Mr Jackson advanced slowly towards\nKevin. Suddenly Sadie jumped between them,\n\n\"If you want to hitfight him you'll have to take me on first.\"\n\n\"Sadie, I don't need you to fight my battles.\" Kevin tried to\nput her firmly aside but she resisted.\n\nIf this went on any longer, thought Tommy, everybody would be\nfighting everyone else. He looked along the street. There were\nanother two men coming. They must break the gathering up quickly\nbefore the other two arrived or there could be a real blood bath.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"924"}},{"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","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"925"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard081","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard081","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Machine gun, Civilians","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard081","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/Lingard081_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff75\n\n\"Been troubsle?\" he asked.\n\n\"Plenty. Still is. Doyle's pub was burnt out.\"\n\nKevin moved on ,tired now after the long day at the seaside and\nthe walk. He walked close to the houses. The streets were full ofastir with\nsoldiers trying to clear up the last of the rioters. They were still\nfighting it out in isolated pockets. Kevin skirted these, taking\nseveral detours to get to his own street. The smell of burning was\nin the air.\n\nIs this a credible incident to suggest sporadic outbursts of violence? YES\n\nA sudden burst of machine gun fire sent him sprawling full length\non the pavement. He lay with his face pressed against h the cold ground,\nhis heart beating racing. He looked sideways. Another burst. He\nput his arms round his head. He was not the target but the need to\nprotect himself was instinctive. A vehichle roared past and stopped.\nKevin eased himself onto his elbow. More armoured trucks, soldsiers,\npolice gathered quickly. On the opposite pavement lay the victim\nof the attack. The man was a civilian and he was dead.\n\nATwo policemen came to Kevin. Had he seen anything? He shook\nhis head. Nothing, he told them, he had seen nothing, he had only\nheard the fire gunfire. He had not even seen the shadow of the gunmen.\n\n\"Away off home then.\"\n\nThe policeman probably did not believe him, knowing full well that\nit would have been more than Kevin'shis life was worth to give away any\ninformation. KevinHe picked himself up and resumed his journey.\n\nHe broke into a trot when he reached the end of his street. He\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"926"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard082","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard082","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Rafferty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard082","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/Lingard082_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff75 a\n\nwanted to go bed and sleep and shut out the sound of gunfire and\nshouting and the sight of men slumped on pavements.\n\n\"Hey there, Kevin!\"\n\nHe halted. It was Brian Rafferty's voice.\n\nBrian caught up with him. \"Boys , theys're getting a run for their\nmoney tonight all right!\" He was grinning.\n\nKevin walked on, Brian fell in to step beside him.\n\n\"Where've you been all day?\"\n\n\"Bangor.\"\n\n\"You missed it all here. Doyle's pub got burnt down by the o\nProds. The cheek of them! They're going to pay for this. They'd\nburn us out to the last man if we let them.\"\n\n\"We do a bit of burning ourselves,\" said Kevin wearily.\n\nBrian seized him by the shoulder and spun him round so that they\nstood face to face. \"I don't like the sound of that talk.\"\n\n\"What good does bru burning things do? I'm sick of fires.\"\n\n\"So you take yoursel f off to Bangor for the day?\"\n\n\"Why not? It's no crime.\"\n\n\"Could be. Depends on who you were with.\"\n\n\"What do you want to say?\" Kevin shoved Brian's hand off his\nshoulder.\n\n\"I met your Uncle Albert on the way home. He was telling me you\nwere with a blonde bird by the name of Sadie.\"\n\n\"So what?\"\n\n\"I remember a girl called Sadie. Few years back.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"927"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard083","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard083","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Church, Bells","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard083","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/Lingard083_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff76\n\n\"Mind your own business!\" Kevin spoke fiercely.\n\n\"I don't know that it might not be my business,\" said Brian, straightening up,\n\"If it's the same Sadie I'm thinking of.\"\n\n\"You won't tell me what to do, Brian Rafferty.\"\n\n\"No?\" Brian smiled, andleaned back his shoulder back against the wall of a house.\n\nKevin wanted to push his head through the wall but he\nwalked on. There were still a number of people around in the streets\nand firemen were dousing the last smoking remains of Doyle's pub.\nKevin skirted the crowds and reached home without having to exchange\nwords with anyone else. Fortunately, all his family was asleep,\neven Brede.\n\n\"No\" said Kevin and left him.\n\nA few yards, and he was home. He shut the door thankfully behind him, tiptoed upstairs in his stockinged feet and fell\nasleep on the bed fully clothed.\n\nHe wakened to the sound of church bells and Brede prodding him in\nthe ribs.\n\n\"What time did you come in last night?\"\n\n\"Haven't the faintest ideaa clue. \" He yawned and stretched.\n\nThere was a smell of bacon in the house.\n\n\"Get y up,\" said Brede.\" or you'll be late for mass.\"\n\nHe washed and,changed his clothes, and went dovm to the kitchen.\nThe rest of the family had eaten. His mother was fussing about,\nwashing faces and combing hair. All the children wore their best\nclothes. It was the only time in the week when they were all clean\nand tidy at the same time.\n\nKevin took his breakfast from the frying pan and sat down to eat.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"928"}},{"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","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"929"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard085","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard085","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"River Lagan, Couples","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard085","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/Lingard085_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff78\n\n\"How dare you, Brede McCoy!\" Kate tossed her head. \"I\u2019ve never\nrun after a boy in my life.\"\n\n\"I was just trying to be helpful.\" The baby began to cry again.\n\"I'll need to get him home for his bottle,\" said Braede.\n\nKate went back down the street and on the way met Brian Rafferty.\nAs sheBrede went inside her house Bredeshe looked back and saw that theyBrian and Kate\nhad their heads together and were deep in conversation.\n\nAfter lunch^Kevin left the house and walked up to Cave Hill.\nHe spent the s afternoon up there alone, lying in the sunshine,\ndrifting into sleep from time to time.\n\nIn the early evening he came down to the city again, on to the\ntow path of the River Lagan, where he had arranged to meet Sadie.\n\nMr xxxxxxxxxxxxxShe camearrived a few minutes after he arriveddid. He saw\nher coming, walking with a long smooth stride, her fair hair blowing\nback in the breeze. His He liked the look of her walking towards\nhim with/a smile on her face. He was smilinged too.\n\nHe caught both hiser hands in hershis.\n\n\"I was wondering if you\u2019d come.\" he said\n\n\"You didn't really. You knew I would.\"\n\n\"Yes.\"\n\nThey wandered along the path, their arms around one another's\nwaists. They passed other young couples, also walking arms entwined,\nor hand in hand. Sometimes, when they passed another couple, they\nall four smiled at each other, as if they were sharing a secret.\n\n\"Does your mother know you're out?\" asked Kevin, and Sadie\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"930"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard086","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard086","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Tinkers, Sadie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard086","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/Lingard086_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff79\n\nlaughed.\n\n'\u2022I'm always out.# I hate being stuck in the house.\"\n\n\"Me too.\"\n\n\"Houses are too small,\" said Sadie. \"I'd like to live in a tent\nin a field.\"\n\n\"What about a caravan?\"\n\n\"We could be tinkers?\" said Sadie.\"I'd quite fancy the life.\nTrotting along the roads with nobody to bother you. Are you any\ngood with a horse?\"\n\n\"A horse? Sure I can handle them as smooth as silk.\" Kevin\nlaughed. \"As long as they're fifty years old and ready to be pensioned\noff.\"\n\nThey stayed by the river until the last light faded from the sky\nand the air was cool.\n\n\"It's been a lovely evening,\" sixghed Sadie.\n\n\"When can I see you again, Sadie?\"\n\n\"When would you like to?\"\n\n\"Tomorrow?\"\n\nShe nodded.\n\n\"Same place?\"\n\n\"Same place.\"\n\nThey tun/red homewards. They agreeddecided they wouLd part before they\ncame near their own areas. They agreed that it was only a borenuisance to have encounters\nlike last night's.  they agreed \n\nThey stoppedSeveral streets away from Sadie's they stopped and sought refuge\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"931"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard087","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard087","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Kissed, Smile","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard087","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/Lingard087_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff80\n\nfrom the night wind in a shop doorway. Sadie said that she ought to\nbe getting home so that she didn't get another row for being late\nbut Kevin kept hold of her hand. and they kept on talking>They stayed there talking for half an hour.\n\nA clock nearby chimed midnight. .\n\n\"Time passes quickly\" said Sadie. \"I'd really better go\" said Sadie.\n\nHe kissed her. \"See you tomorrow.\"\n\n\"Yes. Half Seven.\" She lingered still.\n\n\"Only nineteen hours and a bit.\"\n\n\"Not long...\"\n\nShe They kissed again and then she left him, looking back from the\nnext corner to wave goodbye.\n\nShe thought about him all the way home. andWhen she lay in bed.came in\nher mother had raged at her for being late when she came in but she haddid\nnot even answered back.She drifted up the stairs with a little smile on her face. Mrs Jackson's eyes narrowed suspiciously.\n\n\"I didn't like the look in Sadie's eye,\" said Mrs Jackson to her\nhusband aswhen they lay in bed in the/room next to Sadie's. \"She said she was outwas supposed to be going out\nwith some girls from her work but I've got my doubts.\nJim, you don' t think she would have been meeting that McCoy boy again\ndo you? Jim!\" She nudged him. But Mr Jackson was asleep, and when\nshe stopped talking she heard hism snoresing.\n\nKevin walked home thinking of Sadie too. He liked the way her\neyes danced and her mouth lifted in a mischievous smile. She was\nfull of life and energy that seemed to match his. They matched. He\nsmiled at the thought. In some ways it was ridiculous, but there\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"932"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard088","Collections":"Chapter 9","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard088","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Attack","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard088","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/Lingard088_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff81\n\nit was. There it was. He whsitled to himself.\n\nHe came round by the side of the scrap yard,quite unprepared for\nthe attack. The three boys were upong him before he even had the\nchance to see their faces. But he knew who one was, for the laugh\nwas familiar. And the voice \"Traitor!\" He fought back blindly without a chance. He went\ndwo down on to the ground, face downwards, his arms protectively over\nhis head. He felt their feet, and that was all...\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:49","Nid":"933"}}]}