{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard152","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard152","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Jack, Blood","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard152","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/Lingard152_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffCHAPTER SIXTEEN\n\n\u201cYou have been warned\". Mr Blake read the last words of the\nletter and shook his head. \"Do you hear that, Jack?\u201d he said. \"I\nhave been warned.\u201d Jack got to his feet on hearing his name and\nwagged his tail. \"Nobody will tell me what to do, Jack. There's\nonly one thing to be done with anonymous letters. Burn them. We'll\nburn them all, Jack.\"\n\nMr Blake clicked on his lighter and held the flame to the edge of\nthe paper. The page curled slowly, then burst into fire about half\nway up. He dropped it on to the grate. The writing on this letter\nwas different to the one that had come the day before. He took the\nhearth brush and shovel and swept up the ashes in case Sadie should\nsuspect anything. She was very sharp, and he did not want her to\nbe worried.\n\nHe was tipping the ashes into the bucket in the kitchen when the\nfront door bell rang. He looked at his watch. It was a bit early\nyet for Sadie.\n\nHe went to saw through the fosted glass the shape of a man. He\nopened the door and Kevin half fell into the hall. Mr Blake supported\nhim. There was blood on Kevin's shitt.\n\n\"Sorry,\u201d said Kevin. \"I seem to be making a habit of it. Collapsing\non you.\"\n\nMr Blake took him in to the sitting room and sat him on the settee.\n\n\"I'm all right really,\u201d said Kevin. \"It looks worse than it is.\u201d\n\n\u201dBut you've blood on you. Where's it coming from?\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"997"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard153","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard153","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Rafferty, Kill","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard153","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/Lingard153_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff145\n\n\"It's not mine.\"\n\nMr Blake lit his pipe. \"Whose is it then?\"\n\n\"Fellow by the name of Rafferty, Brian Rafferty. Remember I told\nyou about him?\"\n\n\"The one with the gun?\"\n\nKevin nodded. He told Hr Blake what had happened during the night\nand how in the mra morning he had waited in the alley for Rafferty\nand he had beaten him up. \"It was as if the devil was in me,\" said\nKevin. \"You don't think I should have done it, do you?\"\n\n\"I understand why you did, Kevin.\"\n\n\"But you think it was wrong?\"\n\n\"How would I know what was right and what was wrongI don't like violence of any kind.\" Mr Blake\nrelit his pipe. \"But it's what you think that counts.\"\n\n\"I don;t know what I think.\" Kevin put his head back against\nthe settee. His face was xxxx pale and drawn. \"But I feel sick. I\nfelt sick when I stood and looked down at Rafferty. It's not that\nI c are about him very much.\" He frowned. \"I wanted to fight him,\nI wanted to kill him, but after I'd got him down l there lying at my\nfeet I wished I hadn't done it. Do you understand that?\"\n\n\"Of course.\"\n\n\"It seemed stupid somehow. I don't know. I don't really under-\nstand myself. He deserved it after all.\"\n\n\"I suppose you could say he deserved it\" Mr Blake agreed. \"But maybe you feel youit didn't deserver having to beatdo you any good beating him up?\"\n\nThe front door bell buzzed. \"That'll be Sadie. Shall I tell her\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"998"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard154","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard154","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Beaten, Rafferty","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard154","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/Lingard154_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff146\n\nwhat has happenedabout it?\"\n\n\"Yes\", said Kevin noddedclosing his eyes.\n\nMr Blake took Sadie to the kitchen. He closed the door andto recounted the story. He waited patiently at intervalsbetween sentences to allow Sadiegive her time\nto explode. If she got hold of Kate MaloneKelly she was going to\ntear her to ribbons. and when she heard that Kevin had beaten up Brian\nshe nodded with satisfaction. \"He was needing a lesson,\" she said.\n\n\"It seems that Kevin has got one from it,\" said Mr Blake toldand went on to tell her\nof Kevin's reaction.\n\n\"But what does he feel like that for?\" she demanded. \"Rafferty\nbeat him up framed him, and don't forget he beat Kevin up before!\nWith two others to help him.\"\n\n\"I hadn't forgotten. Niether had Kevin. But what's the next thing?\nMore blood?\"\n\nSadie bit her lips. \"But he couldn't have let Rafferty get away\nwith it.\"\n\n\"It's not Rafferty I'm bothered about. It's Kevin. He's not\nfeeling very happy. Put on the kettle, Sadie , and amke him a cup\nof sweet tea. It might calm the sickness in his stomach.\"\n\nShe made the tea and took a cup to Kevin. He smiled bleakly at\nher as she sat down beside him.\n\n\"I'm a right looking sight,\" he said.\n\n\"You look all right to me. Come on , drink some tea and you'll\nbe feeling better. And then after that you're to lie down in Mr\nBlake's bed and take a rest.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"999"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard155","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard155","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Shadow, Knife","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard155","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/Lingard155_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff147\n\n\"Bossy this morning, aren't you?\"\n\n\"There's times you're needing a bit of bossing.\" She held the\ncup for him whilst he drank. His own hand shook when he tried to\ntake it from her.\n\n\"Maybe I am a bit tired,\" he said.\n\nWhilst he sleptshe washed Brian Raffertys' blood out of Kevin's shirt.\nShe watched the dirty water run out down the drain. Water tinged with\nblood. Suddenly she felt a bit sick herself. She pushed open the\nwindow over the sink. Mr Blake was in the back garden weeding round\nhis rose bushes. He was proud of his roses; he had told Sadie all\nthe different names though she could not remember them.\n\n\"O.K.?\" he asked.\n\nShe nodded.\n\nShe rinsed the shirt three times in clean water, wrung it out and\ntook it to the garden to hang up to dry. She strung it out , pegged it\nand stood back to examine it. Not a shadow of a stain.\n\n\"I hope he hasn't killed Rafferty,\" she said to Mr Blake. \"You\ndon't think he would, do you?\"\n\n\"It's unlikely.\"\n\nSadie knelt down beside him. \"But he might have. You never know,\nRafferty might have hit his head on the ground when he fell.\"\n\n\"It takes a lot to kill a man.\"\n\n\"Not always. It can happen in a second.\"\n\n\"Only with a gun or a knife.\"\n\n\"Kevin didn't have a knife, did he?\" said Sadie slowly. \"He\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1000"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard156","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard156","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Lashes, Tommy","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard156","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/Lingard156_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff148\n\nwouldn't have taken a knife with him, would he?\"\n\n\"Sadie, you know him better than I do.\"\n\n\"No, he wouldn't have had a knife.\" She bent over a deep red\nrose and ds took a deep breath. \"What a smell!\"\n\n\"It's rich, isn't it?\" Mr Blake smiled. \"I must say I enjoy my\nroses.\"\n\n\"It's nice being in a garden.\"\n\n\"I was thinking it would be a a good idea if we were to go out\nin to the country tomorrow. It would do us all good?\"\n\n\"What a lovely idea!\" cried Sadie.\n\nKevin slept through the morning and afternoon. Sadie peeped in\nround the door to look at him before she ent to Moira Henderson's,\nand after she returned. He lay on his back, mouth slightly parted,\nhis long lashes resting on his the edge of his cheekbones. She closed\nthe door quietly behind her.\n\n\"He's sleeping like a baby,\" s .e said to Hr Slake.\n\n\"There's Nothing better than sleep for him. Let him lie awhile yet, Sadie.\"\n\nHer mother was expecting her home to tea but she said that she\nwould come back afterwards. When she got off the bus near her street\nshe saw Tommy coming out of the hardware shop witha a bottle under\nhis arm. He waited for her.\n\n\"Do you know what this is?\" He held up the bottle.\n\nShe m sniffed. \"Smells like trupentine.\"\n\n\"Right first go. Come and on and I'll show you why we need it.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1001"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard157","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard157","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Traitor, Ignorant","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard157","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/Lingard157_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\"What's the big mystery?\"\n\n\"Come and see.\"\n\nHe walked past the house, round the corner. He s pointed t at\nthe gable wall. Belwo the picture of King Billy someone had written\nin white paint: A TRAITOR LIVES HERE.\n\n\"Honest to goodness!\" Sadie rested, her hands on her hips.\n\n\"Aye, honest to goodness!\" said Tommy. \"But if we don't get it\noff here fast two people we know are going to have a stroke.\" He\npulled r two rags from his pocket, threw one at Sadie. \"Better get\nstarted.\"\n\n\"I've a good idea who might have done this,\" she said, as she\nscrubbed at the word 'traitor'.\n\n\"Done what?\" asked her father's voice behind her.\n\nShe dropped the rag. \"What a fright you gave me!\"\n\n\"What are you up to?\" Mr Jackson tried to edge round her.\n\n\"Some eejit's been writing on our wall,\" said Sadie. \"That's all.\"\n\n\"And what have they been writing?\"\n\n\"Just a lot of rubbish.\"\n\nShe had obliterated the first fourthree letters of the word. Mr Jackson\nstared at the other threefour.\n\n\"We couldn't make out what it was at all,\" said Tommy, who was\nscouring the rest of the words.\n\n\"Teerrible bad writing,\" said Sadie. \"Somebody dead ignorant\nobviously.\"\n\nMr Jackson humphed and frowned, then went into the house. Sadie\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1002"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard158","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard158","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Turpentine, Country","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard158","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/Lingard158_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff150\n\nleaned back agianst the flank of the white horse and let out her\nbreath. \"Whew!\"\n\n\"He knew what the words said. Sadie,\" said Tommy quietly,\"I wish\nyou would give up seeing Kevin before any worse trouble happens.\"\n\n\"I've no intention of stopping seeing him,\" she said. \"Do you\nthink I'd give in that easily?\"\n\nTommy sighed and put some more turpentine on the rag.\n\nNext morning, Sadie got up at the same time as her mother. \"I'm\ngoing to work early today,\" she said. \"And I'll be late back tonight.\"\n\n\"What's up today?\" Mrs Jackson cracked an egg and slid it in to\nthe frying pan.\n\n\"We're going to do some spring-cleaning.\"\n\n\"In July?\"\n\n\"It doesn't matter when you spring-clean, does it?\"\n\nMrs Jackson shook her head, cracked another egg. Tommy came in\nto the kitchen yawning. Sadie combed her hair in front of the mirror\nbeside the sink,humming a tune inside her head. It was a lovely\nmronging, it would be fresh and sweet in the country and she would\nhave a whole day with Kevin and Mr Blake away from the town and all\nthe people she did not want to see. \"Don't comb your hair in the\nkitchen,\" said her mother, who always combed her hair in front of that\nmirror and in fact kept it there for that purpose. Mrs Jackson\nset a plate of fried potato bread and an egg on the table for Sadie.\n\nSadie ate quickly and was finished before Tommy's breakfast was ke\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1003"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard159","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard159","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Labour Exchange, Burning","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard159","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/Lingard159_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff151\n\nready. She avoided looking at him.\n\n\"What are you grinning smiling about?\" asked her mother. \"I never\nthought I'd see the day when you'd be grinning about the prospect\nof spring-cleaning someone's house.\"\n\n\"It's just that it's a nice morning.\"\n\nShe wanted to skip as she went up the street. She did not go\nround by the side of the house so she did not see that the word\nTRAITOR had been repainted on the gable wall. She rode out to Mr\nBlake's house on the top front seat of the bus pitying all the people\nshe saw hurrying to w spend such a day in a dingy shop or office.\nHer mother thought she was going regularly to the Labour Exchange to\nlook for a new job.but she had never been back since the first day\nafter she had been sacked from the hat department.\n\nMr Blakes had taken his car out of the garage before she arrived.\nIt stood in the street looking shiny and clean. Kevin had washed it\nonly two days before.\n\n\"Good morning, Sadie.\" Mr Blake was cheerful. He always was.\n\nShe went straight to the kitchen to start making a picnic lunch.\nShe sniffed. There seemedto be a smell of bruning paper. She had\nnoticed it the day before too. She looked in the rubbish bin and\nsaw some charred paper. Mr Blake must have been burning old letters.\nStrange. She frowned, then forgot it. As she buttered the bread\nshe sang.\nWhen Kevin arrived shotyly afterwardsshe ran to meet him in the hall.\n\n\"How's Rafferty?\" It was the first thing the bothShe asked at once.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1004"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard160","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard160","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Maps, Henderson","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard160","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/Lingard160_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff152\n\n\"Still alive.\"\n\n\"Thank goodness for that!\" said Sadie.\n\n\"But a bit bashed about, so I hear. They tell me he has a few\nstitches and has taken to his bed.\"\n\n\"Bed'll be a good place for him,\" said Mr Blake. \"Keep him out of\ntrouble.\"\n\nHis friends would k not be lying in their beds though, thought\nSadie, but she did not say it for she did not want the day spoiled,\nKevin was looking much better. He had slept all night as well, he\nsaid.\n\nThey loaded up the car and Mr Blake fetched some maps from his\nbedroom. They did not know where they were going; they wanted to\nwander off without any set ideas. Moira Henderson walked along the\nwith the baby under her arm to watch them getting ready. Her Deirdre\nand Peter played in and out of the car.\n\n\"You're lucky to be going away for a whole day,\" said Moira . \"I\nwouldn't mind it myself.\"\n\n\"Sorry we can't take you all with us,\" said Mr Blake. \"Not enough\nroom. Unless you'd like to sit on the roof!\"\n\nThey set offin high spirits. Moira xx and the children waved the\nuntil they turned the corner. Kevin and Sadie settled on the back seat\nto enjoy the trip. Jack lay on the front passenger seat beside his\nmaster.\n\n\"I thin: we'll head north,\" said Mr Blake. \"Up towards the glens\nof Antrim maybe?\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1005"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard161","Collections":"Chapter 16","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard161","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Sea, Violently","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard161","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/Lingard161_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff153\n\n\"Anywhere at all,\" said Sadie. \"I don't mind a bit.\" Her hand\nlay in Kevin's. He looked at her and smiled.\n\nThey took the coast road that ran close round by the coast, winding\nand twisting beside the sea. The water was bluelooked green today, tipped with\nwhite. Sadie and Kevin decided that they would bathe later.\n\nMr Blake exclaimed suddenly.\n\n\"What's the matter?\" asked Kevin, leaning forward.\n\n\"Don't know. Just felt a wobble. There it goes again. Think\nit might be a flat tyre. I'll pull in.\"\n\nMr Blake pulled on the steering wheel, braking gently.\nAnd then the car lurched violently, sending them spinning straight across the\nroad. The tyre was not flat: the off-side front wheel careered on\ndown the road leaving the car behind.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:52","Nid":"1006"}}]}