{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard129","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard129","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Tyrone, Protestant","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard129","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/Lingard129_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff121\n\nCHAPTER FOURTEEN\n\nKevin was not allowed to go back to work for another two weeks. His\njob involved too much heavy lifting, the doctor said. The days were\nlong for Kevin. The house was too small; the street, in the daytime\nhours, was the prerogative of the womena nd young children. The\nwomen gossiped in their doorways, aims folded, their eyes sharp for\nany speck of interest. When he came by they called out to him,\nwilling him to stop, but he seldom did. He talked less to anyone in\nthe district now than he ever had.\n\n\"There's a real change come over your Kevin,\" said Mrs MaloneKelly to\nMrs McCoy when she called to see her. \"He used to be a right cheery\nboy, always ready for a bit of a crack.\"\n\n\"He got quite a beating up, you know.He got a right ebating up, you know.\"\n\nMrs McCoy lifted another shirt from the wash basket and carried\non ironing. She was hot, even though the back door stood wide\nopen to let in the air, or what air there was in the small spaces\nbetween the houses. She thought of t the green f ield s of County\nTyrone and thought she must try to take the baby there for a week\nor two after he was born so that his lungs could fill with fresh\ncountry air.\n\n\"There's some that say he was asking g for it.\"\n\nMrs McCoy xxxx lifted her head and looked Mrs MaloneKelly straight\nin the eye. \"And what are you meaning by that?\"\n\nMrs MaloneKelly shrugged, looked away. \"Well... you know.\"\n\n\"Because he went out a couple of times with a Protestant girl?\n\nIt might have been silly of him but it's not a crime,\" said Mrs\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"974"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard130","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard130","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"McCoy, Kate","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard130","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/Lingard130_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff122\n\nMcCoy. \"Not even our church says it's a crime.\"\n\n\"Oh I wasn't saying it's a crime,\" said Mrs MaloneKellyhastily. \"It's\njust that with tempers running highall the trouble round here and all that...\"\n\nMrs McCoy folded the shirt neatly,laid it aside, reached for another.\nShe straightened her back, putting her hand to her hip.\n\n\"Are you all right?\" asked Mrs MaloneKelly.\n\n\"Yes. Just/a bit tired.\"\n\n\"Come on ,let me do some of that for you.\"\n\nMrs McCoy protested, she did not like to sit a idle anyway, but Mrs\nMaloneKellyinsisted. She was a good-hearted woman, thought Mrs McCoy, as\nshe sat back in the armchair to take a rest. She would always come if\nyou needed her. She had only had one child, Katethree children and Kate was the youngest sot that she had\nmore time to spare than most of the other women.\n\nMrs MaloneKelly slapped the iron up and down the irsoning board. The\nclothes might be not be as smoothly pressed this time but no matter.\nMrs McCoy suddenly realised how tired she was. And she had a pain in her back.\n\n\"He's not going out with her now then,I take it?\" asked Mrs MaloneKelly\n\n\"Not as far as I know. But I don't ask him where he's going every\ntime he goes out. He's too oldx for that.\"\n\n\"Oh, of course. But I was just wondering. He doesn't see much of\nKate now. They used to be that close at one time.\"\n\n\"I wouldn't think of asking him about Kate, MaloneKelly. And I'm\nsure you'd agree that you and/I/shouldn't talk about them either.\"\nMrs McCoy gotstood up and stretchedrubbed her back. \"Do you know, I think\nI'm going to have to ask you to phone for the ambulance and take me\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"975"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard131","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard131","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Cave Hill, District","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard131","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/Lingard131_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff123\n\nto the hospital?\"\n\nThe other woman dropped the iron.\n\n\"Don't get flustered now,\" said Mrs McCoy. \"This is my ninth after\nill so I know what I'm doing but I'd just like to have it t in the\nhospital. I have my bed booked after all.\" To have the baby at home would mean missing those few\nlovely days of peace and rest with the order t of the hospital around\nher and the friednly attention of the bustling, cheerful nurses.\n\n\"Where the devil's Kevin now?\" said Mrs MaloneKelly.\n\n\"He went out early on. He might not be back for hours.\"\n\n\"Sure he could have run to the phone while I stayed with you.\"\n\n\"But he isn't here,\" said his mother. \"After all, he wasn't to\nknow I'd be needing him.\"\n\nKevin was walking in the park with Sadie and Moira's two children.\nHe had taken to coming over to the neighbourhood most days. He would\narrive abound mid-morning at Mr Blake's in time to have a cup of\ncoffee with them and then he would wash Mr Blake's car or potter round\nthe garden. He was so unused to gardens that the very feel of soil\nand grass felt starangstrange to his fingers. When he lay on the ground up\non Cave Hill he did not actually put his fingers into the earth.\n\nAnd In the afternoons he went with Sadie to collect the children.\nHe felt safe with Sadie in the district: they could walk without\nlooking over their shoulders. Mo one knew them. In his own street\nhe felt that eyes followed him as he walked. At every corner he braced himself, half expecting to be jumped on. When he came to meet\nSadie in the evenings he left his own neighbourhood by devious routes\nfeeling partly annoyed that he should have to be bothered by such\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"976"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard132","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard132","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Kicked, Rafferty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard132","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/Lingard132_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff124\n\ntricks, partly enjoying the exercise of outwitting possible shadowers.\nThere was a bit of him that enjoyed exciteemntment, even danger. Sadie\nunderstood it, shared it. It added spice to their meetings, made them\nlaugh together.\n\nWhen he was coming home at tea-time that day he met Kate. She\nhailed him as he was coming off the bus. He stood and waited for her\nreluctantly.\n\n\"Your mother's had her baby,\" said Kate. \"A wee girl. They were\nlooking all over for you this afternoon and they couldn't find you\nanywhere. They had to get Brede from the nursery to look after the\nwee ones.\"\n\n\"I must be getting home then.\" He lengthened his step.\n\n\"Hey, wait for us,\" said Kate. \"It's a bit late to be running now.\nWhat do you do with yourself all day?\"\n\n\"Nothing much.\"\n\n\"You must do something.\"\n\nHe shrugged. He slowed his step to let Kate walk beside him. She\nwould run if he did not. She could hang on like a dog with its teeth\non a bone.\n\n\"You don't seem to have much time for your old friends now.\"\n\n\"Some of them are no longer my friends.\" Kevin pointed to his headtouched his bandagde\n\"I don't like getting kicked in the head.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be friends that did that.\"\n\n\"Kate, I know who did it.\"\n\n\"You're thinking it's Brian Rafferty, aren't you? He says you've\nbeen going round blackening his nameslandering him. He's not pleased.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"977"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard133","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard133","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Cruel, Scrapyard","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard133","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/Lingard133_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff125\n\n\"I don't care if he's pleased.   Let it lieYou keep out of it, Kate.\"\n\nThey reached the scrapyard. She put her hand on his arm. \"Just\na minute, Kevin. I want a word with you.\"\n\n\"All right.\" He sixghed inside himself.\n\n\"Is it all over with us?\" Her blue eyes were round and tearful,\nframed by the false lashes that he had often jokinggly called road sweepers\n\n\"But Kate...\" He bit his lip. \"Well, it's not as if we were\ngoing steady or anything.\"\n\n\"I thought we were going steady,\" she cired cried.\n\n\"But I didn't,\" he said bluntly.\n\n\"You're cruel and horrible, Kevin McCoy, and I hate you.'\"\n\n\"Now look, Kate - \u00bb\n\nBut she was gone, running towards her house, crying no doubt, ready\nto fall into the arms of her mother. It was as well that she had\ngone for he had not known what else to say to her. What could he say?\nHe hated it when girls cried. He was uncomfortable, did not know what\nto do. He had never seen Sadie cry. Brede wept sometimes, very\nquietly, deep down in her bed.\n\nHe continued up the road to his house. Brede was there cooking\nthe meal, keeping the children in order. She had been given a week's\nleave from the nursery to look after the family.\n\n\"Where have vou been?\" she asked, pushing a lock of hair back from her forehead with the back of her hand.\n\n\"Don't you start?!\" he answered irritably.\n\n\"Why, who else has been at you?\"\n\n\"I met MKate MaloneKelly on mythe way up.\"\n\nBrede sighed. \"Have you been upsetting her?\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"978"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard134","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard134","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Blackmailed, Wetting","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard134","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/Lingard134_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff126\n\n\"Can I help it?\"he demanded.\n\n\"No.\" But it might not do you any good.\"\n\n\"If you're suggesting I keep in with her because of my job you\nshould know better than that! MaloneKelly employs me because I work hard\nnot because his daughter\u2019s after me.\" He sat down at the table and straightened his sore leg. His\nlegIt still ached if he walked too much.\n\nBrede hesitated. \"She can cause trouble, Kate, if she has a mindwants\nto.\"\n\n\"Let her. I\u2019ll not be blackmailed.\"\n\n\"I've seen her around with Brian Rafferty quite a bit.\"\n\n\"Maybe they\u2019d suit one another.\"\n\n\"You sound bittersour tonight.\"\n\n\"I'd just like to be left alone for a while.\"\n\nBrede turned down the gas under the pot on the stove and began\nsetting the table. \"Were you out seeing Sadie?\" Kevin did not answer.\n\"Be careful, Kevin, won't you? It's all right, you know you can\ntrust me.\"\n\n\"Yes, I know that. You're about the only one I can. Apart from\nSadie.\" And Mr Blake and Moira Henderson. They were to be trusted\ntoo.\n\nBrede raised her eyes to his. \"So you are seeing her? Well, I\nsuppose I knew it. You're keen on her, Kevin, aren't you?\"\n\n\"Would I see her if I weren't?\"\n\nTheir father came in then. He was in a jovial mood. He had been\nin the pub 'wetting the baby's head'. It was a tradition to celebrate\nthe birth of a new child by buying your friends a few drinks. By\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"979"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard135","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard135","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Polite, Aggie","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard135","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/Lingard135_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff127\n\ntomorrow he would be grumbling about having another mouth to feed,\nbut this evening he would bewas feeling happy and be patting his childre n\non the head and telling them what a fine bunch of kids they were.\n\nAfter tea he went off to the hospital with Brede to see his new\nchild. Kevin stayed at home with the rest of the family. He had\nnot arranged to meet Sadie that evening. Her aunt and uncle were\ncoming on a visiting and shesaid her fatmother was getting so annnoyed\nwith her that she thought she had better stay at home for once.\n\"Dead boring it\u2019ll be,\" Sadie had said, and Kevin grinned at the\npicture of Sadie sitting in the front parlour trying to make polite\nconversation with her aunt.\n\n\"So you\u2019re working for a man, Sadie?\" said her Aunt May. \"Well,\nwell!\"\n\n\"He\u2019s old,\" said Mrs Jackson sharply. \"And he used to teach Sadie at the school. Have another sandwich, May.\n\n\"Don\u2019t mind if I do. Though I should be watching my figure. Bert\nsays I\u2019m getting as fat as a/pig.\"\n\nHer husband had gone to the pub with Mr Jackson. Sadie satx with\nher mother and u aunt shifting around on the scratchy plush armchair.\nShe hated the furniture in the front room.\n\n\"Can you not sit still for a minute, Sadie?\" said her mother.\n\n\"She never could sit still, could she ,Aggie, from the minute\nshe was born?\" Aunt May bit deep in to a sandwich. \"Are you liking\nyour job then, Sadie?2\"\n\n\"It\u2019s great.\"\n\n\"It\u2019s only temporary,of course, May,\" said Mrs Jackson. \"She\u2019s\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"980"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard136","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard136","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Wages, Steve","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard136","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/Lingard136_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff128\n\nonly doing it while she looks out for something better.\"\n\n\"But I like what I'm doing,\" said Sadie, sitting up starraight.\n\n\"But you could be a making bigger wages doing something else.\nYou don't think you can go on bringing that amount of money in every\nweek, do you? I don't think you've any idea what it costs to feed\nyou, my girl.\" Mrs Jackson folded her arms. \"Oh no, you can't keep\non with those two bits of jobs. And there's no use starting to tell\nme you'll leave home or any of that nonsense for you know you know\nfine well you couldn't live in digs on that kind of money.\"\n\nSadie got up. \"I'm going out,\" she said.\n\nShe shut the sitting door behind her and stood in the narrow hall\nwith rage searing inside her. There was a x time when she would have\nbeen tempted to kick the door and shout. Now she took a few deep\nbreaths and said a few thingssome words inside herself.\n\n\"You have your hands full there, Aggie,\" she heard Aunt Kay saying.\n\n\"The job thing is only the least of it,\" said her mother. \"Wait\ntill you hear the rest!\"\n\nSadie did not wait; she left the house. She walked up the street.\nMrs Mullet was at her door, in usual posture, arms folded, one hip\nleaning against the door jamb, her feet enveloped in fur slippers.\nSadie did not look over at her.\n\nShe went along the main road to the cafe where she had taken\nBrede. She had seen little of her friends in the last few weeks.\nThe cafe was quiet. Two boys sat in one corner; Linda sat with Steve\nin another. Sadie went to the counter for a cup of coffee.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"981"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard137","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard137","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Boyfriends, Mullet","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard137","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/Lingard137_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff129\n\n\"Haven't seen you for ages,\" said the man as he set the cup on\nthe counter. \"Thought you'd deserted me.\"\n\n\"I've Bbeen busy\" said Sadie.\n\nshe took the coffee andSadie carried ither coffee to a table. Linda and Steve\ngot up and came across to her.\n\n\"Mind if we join you?\" asked Linda.\n\nSadie shrugged.\n\nThey sat down.\n\n\"Not out with your Mick boyfriends the night?\" said Linda, taking\na t/srand of hair and twirling it round one finger.\n\nSadie eyed her warily. She was glad that Tommy had at last seen\nthe light and given her up but she knew that Linda blamed her for\nit, and not Tommy.\n\n\"You needn't pretend you don't know h who we're talking about,\"\nsaid Linda.\n\n\"I've nothing to talk to you about, Linda Mullet.\" Sadie pushed\nback her chair.\n\n\"Not so fast,\" said Steve, putting/out his arm to block her path.\n\"There's some of us round here don't like the company you keep.\"\n\n\"You can lump it then,\" snapped Sadie.\n\n\"I don't think that's a very nice attitude to take,\" said Steve,\nwith an unpleasanta nasty smile.\n\n\"And I don't like anyone telling me what to do.\" Excuse me.\"\n\nSteve did not move his arm. He continued to stare at her, daring\nher to push him. The stksxxtxs proprietor lifted the lid of his counter\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"982"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard138","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard138","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Wrestler, Murderous","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard138","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/Lingard138_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff130\n\nand crossed to their table.\n\n\"What's going on here?\" He looked at Steve. \"Don't you try to be\nrough with anyone in my cafe, ladboy!\" He was a big, powerfully-built\nman; at one time he had been an amateur all-in-wrestler.\n\nSteve shrugged one shoulder but withdrew his hand. He stood\nup, knocking over his chair. \"Come/on, Linda, let's blow. This'sde\njoint's just a dump*\"\n\n\"Come back and pick up the chair.\" The man's voice was quiet.\n\nSteve ambled on towards the door. Linda stood hesitantly, terrified\neither to go or to stay.\n\n\"Come back!\" The propraietor caught Steve by the shoulder. Steve\nstopped facing out to the street. \"Now pick up that chair. You\nknocked it over. I like some manners round here.\"\n\nSteve picked up the chair. His face was scarlet. As he turned to\nleave the cafe he gave Sadie a backward, murderous look. Linda\nfollwed him.\n\n\"Lout!\" said the proprietor.\"You all right, Sadie?\"\n\n\"Fine, fine,\" she assured him. She could easily have got away\nfrom Steve herself. Now he had something else chalked up against\nher.\n\nThe proprietor accompanied her out on to the pavement to make\nsure thatS Steve and Linda were not about.\n\nThe evening stretched ahead emptily ahead. She wished she had\narranged to meet Kevin. She wondered what he would be doing. The\nthought of the house with Aunt May twittering away made her shudder.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"983"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard139","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard139","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Barricades, Children","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard139","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/Lingard139_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff131\n\nShe wandered around the streets. She always walked when she was\nrestless. She came out eventually to the edge of their x quarter\nand stood looking at the barbed-wire barriacades. Beyond them was\nKevin. She longed to see him. But he was unreachable.\n\n\"I'm glad Ma's well,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"Oh, she's doing rightly,\" said his father.\n\n\"And so is the baby,\" said Brede with a smile. \"Just a wee wisp of\na thing . You forget how weelittle they are when they're newly born.\"\n\nThey sat round the kitchen table drinking tea and eating soda\nbread that Brede had baked earlier. The younger children were all\nin bed and the house was quiet.\n\nMr McCoy ywa yawned and stretched. \"I'm thinking we could allbe\ndoing with an early night. After all the excitement.\"\n\nThe front door opened and they heard Uncle Albert's xvoice. \"Are\nyou in?\"\n\n\"Come away in, Albert,\" shouted back Mr McCoy.\n\nUncle Albert poked his head round the kitchen door. \"The army's\nhaving a search,\" he announced.\n\nThey all got up at once.\n\n\"In this street?\" asked Mr McCoy.\n\n\"The very one,\" said Uncle Albert.\n\nThey went to the front door. Most of their neighbours were\ngathered at their doors already.\n\n\"I'm blowed if they're going to poke inside my house,\" said Mr\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"984"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard140","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard140","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Informers, Teenage","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard140","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/Lingard140_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff132\n\nMcCoy. He pulled his door shut behind him and stood with feet astride\non the pavement.\n\n\"You can hardly stop them,'' said Brde quietly. \"And we have nothing to hide\"\n\nAt the foot of the streetThey could seesaw two armoured cars and\nseveral figures in khaki at the end of the street.\n\n\"I heard tell they'd had a tip off,\" said Uncle Albert. He shook his head. \"There's\ninformers everywhere.\"\n\n\"So they must be expecting to find something, \" said Brede.\n\n\"They'll not find noanything, \" a said Mr McCoy. \"They just take it into\ntheir heads to have a search if they've nothing else to do of an\nevening.\"\n\nKevin said nothing. He left hxx theme at and sauntered slowly\ndown the street. The first a three houses had been searched. The\nsoldsiers had come out epmty-handed. Some women were shouting at\nthem, a few teenage girls ran alongside them calling themout obscene\nnames. The soldiers strode on as if they were deaf.\n\nAnother house: another blank. There was one more house before they\nwould reach Raffertys'. Kevin scanned the crowds in the street.\nMo sign of Brian or his father, though Mrs Rafferty stood at her\ndoor, her xx fire in her eyes, ready to lash out with x her tongue\nat the searchers when they arrived.\n\nThe soldiers came out of the adjoining house. Kevin saw Brian then;\nhe was turning the corner to come in to the street. HeKevin looked back over\nat the Raffertys' house. Their turn had come.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51","Nid":"985"}}]}