{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard111","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard111","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Rafferty, Secret","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard111","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/Lingard111_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff103\n\nCHAPTER TWELVE\n\n\"The last time,\" repeated Kevin.\n\n\"It's not because I don't want to see you,\" said Sadie. \"You know\nthatI do.\"\n\n\"So you're ready to give in to them?\" Kevin's voic\u00a9 had an edge\nof bitterness.\n\n\"It's not a case of giving in.\"\n\n\"What is it then?\" he demanded.\n\n\"I don't want you to get hurt again,\" she said simply. \"That's all.\"\n\nThey were quiet for a moment before Kevin spoke. \"I'm sorry, I\ndidn't mean to sound angry with you, Sadie. It's just that I hate the\nidea of Brian Rafferty telling me what to do.\"\n\n\"It's not just Brian Rafferty is it? If it wasn't him it would\nbe somebody else. Every time I left you I'd be wondering if you\nwere going to be beaten up on the way home.\"\n\n\"They needn't know. We could meet in secret.\"\n\n\"Where?\"\n\nKevin sighed. He closed his eyes.\n\nMr Blake knocked before he came inentered. He put his head round the door\nand looked at them. Then he came in and shut the door. He sat\ndown.\n\n\"What's the matter? The two of you don't look very happy.\"\n\n\"We're not,\" said Kevin. \"Sadie thinks we'll have to give up\nseeing one another.\"\n\nMr Blake shook his head. He reached out to a pipe rack, took down\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"956"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard112","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard112","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Hurt, Trouble","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard112","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/Lingard112_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff104\n\na pipe and began to fill it with tobacco. \"It'sxxxx a pity that.\nSince you seem so fond of one another. But I know it must be\ndifficult.\"\n\nSadie flet herself blush. Yes, it was true: she was fond of\nKevin; that was why she could not bear to have him hurt.\n\n\"It is difficult,\" she said. \"Even to meet.\n\nKevin had closed his eyes again. His face waslooked pale a nd exhausted.\n\n\"I think we\u2019ll have to get that boy home.\" said Mr Blake.\n\nThey helped him back into the car. Sadie sat in the back as\nbefore.\n\n\"You\u2019ve to let me off outside my neighbourhood,\" Kevin insisted.\n\"I'll manage the last bit alone.\"\n\n\"All right,\" said Mr Blake. \"I'm not happy at letting you walk\nbut theres's no point in causing any more trouble.\"\n\nHe stopped the car in a side street. \"Will you make it from here?\"\n\nKevin nodded. He put his hand on the handle of the door and looked\nround at Sadie. Was this to be the last time they would see one another?\n\n\"I tell you what,\" said Mr Blake, \"Would the two of you like to\ncome round to my house for supper one evening?\"\n\n\"We'd love to, wouldn't we, Kevin?\"\n\n\"Yes,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"Shall we say Friday?\" suggested Mr Blake. \"That'll give Kevin\na few days to be going about again.\"\n\n\"See you Friday then,\" said Kevin.\n\nHe opened the door. They watched him as he walked up the street.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"957"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard113","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard113","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Protestant, Catholic","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard113","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/Lingard113_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff105\n\nHe was limping badly but walking fairly steadily. At the corner he\nturned to wave, then was gone. Sadie moved over on to the front seat\nbeside Mr Blake.\n\n\"I'm hope he'll be all right,\" she said.\n\n\"Don't worry. He'll make it. He' looks a tough one.\"\n\nMr Blake drove Sadie home. They parsed several armoured cars\nheading in the opposite direction.\n\n\"These are bad times, Sadie,\" sighed Mr Blake. \"Especially for\na Catholic Protestant girl to bex keeping company with a Catholic\nboy.\"\n\n\"I know,\" she said soberly. \"Do you think I'm mad, Mr Blake?\"\n\n\"Yes,\" he said. \"And I should probably give you good advice and tell you to give it up.But I like you for it. You can't always walk with the crowd. Especially if you don't like the way they're walking. It takes a bit of courage.\nYou were never lacking in that.\"\n\nSadie felt herself blush again. She was not one who blushed easily but that was twice Mr Blake had made\nher blush in a few hours. He was a very open and honest man, she remembered that\nfor from schooldays. He always said what it was in his mind to say.\n\nHe stopped outside her dasrwhouse. She opened the car door.\n\n\"Good night, Mr Blake. And thanks for everything. I think you're\njust marvelloussuper!\"\n\nHis blue eyes twinkled. \"A few years aback you were probably\nsaying quite the opposite, eh?\"\n\n\"I'm changing in ny old age. See you. Thanks again.\"\n\nShe stood on the pavement, waving until he was out of sight.\nShe was still shaking her head with admiration when Tommy came out\nof the front door.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"958"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard114","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard114","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Hell, Sack","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard114","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/Lingard114_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff106\n\n\"Who was that brought you home?\"\n\n\"Twinkle Hake. Do you remember him? The geography teacher.\"\n\nTommy frowned. \"What were you doing with him?\"\n\nSadie told him antr about Kevin meeting him on the Lagan path.\nTommy was impressed by Mr Blake's kindness but troubled that Sadie\nwas going to see Kevin again.\n\n\"Where'11 it all end?\" he wanted to know.\n\n\"I can't think about that,\" said Sadie. Beginnings were more\ninteresting. \"But do you know what happened to me this morning?\"\n\n\"No, but I soon will.\"\n\n\"The old bitch in the hat department said to me, 'I hear you're\nkeeping company with a Mick'.\"\n\n\"And what did you say?\" asked Tommy, resigned to hearing the worst.\n\n\"I told her to go hell and she gave me the sack.\"\n\n\"Will you never learn to keep your mouth shut?\"\n\n\"Why should I? She opened hers first.\"\n\n\"What'll Ma say when she hears you're out of work??\"\n\n\"I'm not going to tell her till I egt another job.\"\n\nA loud bang near by made them jump. It had sounded like the\ncrack of an explosion. Almost at once other noises followed the\nfirst one: screaming, shouting, commotion. It was coming from the\nnext street.\n\nThey ran round the corner. Mrs McConkey's shop was going up in\nflames\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"959"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard115","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard115","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Fire Engines, Police cars","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard115","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/Lingard115_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff107\n\nA. number of people had gathered in the street already. They were mostlyMost of them were\nrunning about shouting. Mr Mullet was there waving his\narms.\n\n\"Sadie, go quickrun and findget a noliceman,\" said Tommy.\n\nSadie went. One did not have to go far without encountering a\npoliceman or soldier. She found the two policmen in the main street.\nThey had heard the explosion and were coming to investigate.\n\nWithin several minutes the narrow street was filled with fire\nengines, police cars and people. The police ordered the spectators\nout of the street and began to evacuate the families in the houses\nnear Mrs McConkeys's shop.\n\nThe Jacksons and the Mullets retreated round the corner to stand.They stood\nin front of the Jacksons' house andto await news. Fresh rumours\ncame with every person who passed. The shop had been blown up\nby gelignite, a petrol bomb, three petrol bombs... Four masked men\nhad been seen in the street. Mrs McConkey was dead. Mrs McConkey\nhad been rushed to hospital. Mrs McConkey had not been found.\n\n\"God help us all,\" said Mrs MulletJackson. \"It could be our turn next.\"\n\nSadie thought of Mr Blake in his nice quiet house. She wished\nshe could get away from this street. She uesused to enjoy it, the\nlife and movement, of people and always someone standing in a door-\nway ready to pass the time of day.\n\n\"Shall I go in and make us allWhat about a cup of tea?\" she asked.\n\nHer mother turned to her in surprise, \"What's up with you? Offering\nto make tea?\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"960"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard116","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard116","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Linda, Newspaper","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard116","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/Lingard116_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff108\n\nSadie shrugged. \"I'll go in and put the kettle on.\"\n\n\"Away you go in and help her, Linda,\" said Mrs Mullet, but Linda\ndid not want to miss anything in the street.\n\n\"I can manageIt is alright,\" said Sadie, who did not want Linda's company\nanyway. She wanted to be alone to think.\n\nShe set the kettle on the gas and took down the cups from their\nhooks. The kitchen was spotlessly clean and tidy. Her ma mother\nwas a good housewife. \"You could eat off the floor,\" she was fond\nof saying proudly, but Sadie always asked who would want to eat off\nthe floor.\n\nAfter a few minutes Tommy joined her. \"It seems they've have got\nMrs cConkey out. But she\u2019s badly burned.\"\n\n\"Poor Mrs McConkey,\" sighed Sadie.\n\nThey would never again lean on her counter amongst the trays of\nsweets and rows of newspapers and comics. A part of their childhood\nhad gone.\n\n\"The tea's ready, \" aid Sadie. \"Will you call them in?\"\n\nThe two families sat down in the kitchen together.\n\n\"The firemen are still at it,\" said Mr Jackson. \"The shop's a\ngonner, that's for sure.\"\n\n\"Let's hope Mrs cConkey's not,\" aid said Mrs Jackson.\n\n\"And to think I was in there just a few hours ago having a crackyarn\nwith her,\" sniffed Mrs Mullet. She lifted her head thoughtfully.\n\"There was a girl came in when I was there. A stranger.\"\n\n\"Have abiscuit, Mrs Mullet,\" said Sadie quickly, thrusting the\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"961"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard117","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard117","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"McCoy, Jessie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard117","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/Lingard117_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff109\n\nplate under Mrs Mullet's nose.\n\nMrs Mullet took a biscuit absentmindedly. \"Yes, she came here after-\nwards.\"\n\n\"She had nothing to do with it,\" said Tommy shortly.\n\n\"It was Kevin MCCoy's sister, wasn't it?\" said Linda. \"I saw her\nfrom the window.\"\n\n\"Kevin McCoy's sister?\" said Mr Jackson.\n\n\"What if it was?\" Sadie got up, took her cup and saucer to the\nsink and washed it. them. \"You're not trying to say that she was in\nthe shop planting a stick of gelignite?\"\n\n\"How do we know what she was here for?\" demanded Mrs Mullet.\n\n\"Well, what was she here for?\" asked Mrs Jackson. \"It's the first\nI knew of hers being here at all.\"\n\n\"There's a lot going on without you knowing, Mrs Jackson, I'm\nthinking,\" said Mrs Mullet.\n\n\"Go on, then, Sadie,\" said Linda, planting her elbows on the table\n\"tell us what she was here for?.\"\n\n\"Why should I? It was private, between us.\"\n\n\"Maybe that's what you think,\" said Linda. \"Maybe she was sent to\nspy out the lie of the land.\"\n\n\"Don't be so stupid!\" Tommy turned on Linda.\n\nMr Mullet got to his feet. \"Don't you dare speak to our Linda like that\nCome on, Linda. Jessie, we're going g home. It seems that Tommy and\nSadie aren't fussy about who they keep company with, but I'm fussy\nabout my daughter's company.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"962"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard118","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard118","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"McConkey, Damaged","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard118","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/Lingard118_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff110\n\nThe Mullets ushered their daughter out before she could get a\nchance to protest. kakxx\n\n\"Good riddance to bad rubbish!\" declared Sadie.\n\n\"That'll do, Sadie,\" aid her mother. \"There's no need to cause any\nmore trouble. We've enough as it is.\"\n\n\"But the cheek of them suggesting Brede McCoy was coming round here\nto help blow up Mrs HcConkey!\"\n\n\"And what was Brede McCoy doing round here?\"\n\n\"I told you before:it was private.\"\n\n\"That's not a good enough answer.\"\n\n\"It'll have to do,\" said Sadie. and She left the kitchen and went\nup to bed.\n\nIn the morning her mother was tight-lipped and silent. Sadie ate\nher breakfast and left the house at the usual time. She went round to the\nnext street. On the corner was a blackened shell that had once been\na shop. The adjoining house was slightly damaged and there waswere signs\nof a hasty removal.\n\nAs she stood x on the pavement she saw Steve coming along xxtkxkx\non his way to work. She was goingabout to move away when he called her.\n\n\"Bad bit work of that, eh?\" She agreed, and he said,\"They'll not\nget away with it.\"\n\n\"What's the point in going on? They'll just come back again.\nIt could go on forever.\"\n\n\"You're wrong! There's more of us. Anyway, Sadie Jackson, you've\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"963"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard119","Collections":"Chapter 12","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard119","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"City Hall, Nostalgic","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard119","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/Lingard119_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff111\n\nchanged your tune a bit these last few years.\"\n\n\"There's some never sing anything but the one note all their lives!\"\n\nShe walked off before he had the chance to reply. She liked to\nhave the last word, she knew it full well, but who better to have it\nwith than someone like Steve?\n\nLinda was waiting at the bus stop. They ignored one another in\nthe queue but when they got on to the bus Linda came and sat beside\nher.\n\n\"I didn't really mean what I said last night, \"said Linda.\n\n\"Why say it then?\" snapped Sadie. She looked out of the window\nthe rest of the way in to town. She was not going to give Linda Mullet any satisfaction. Brede McCoy was worth ten of her. Linda talkedchattered on regardlessly.\n\nSadiet tried to lose her at the City Hall but Linda could bewas\npersistent. She kept in step with Sadie all the way along the street\nto the shop where Sadie worked. Had worked. She was going to have to\ngo inside now, pretend that she still did work there. Linda workedwas a typist\nin an office a few yards further on.\n\n\"Will I see you at lunch time?\" asked Linda.\n\n\"I'm busy for lunch.\"\n\nSadie left her abruptly and went in through the side entrance for\nemployees. She met the head of the hat department inside the door.\n\n\"What do you think you're doing here?\"\n\n\"Just taking a last nostalgic look,\" said Sadie and walked out\nagain. She saw the rear view of Linda disappearing into the crowd.\n\nSadie turned and walked back along to the City Hall. She supposed\nshe should go to the Labour Exchange and try to get a job but they\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"964"}},{"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","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"965"}}]}