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Frank
stared
at
the
crisp
blue
five-pound
note
in
his
hand
,
longing
to
tear
it
into
shreds
and
fling
them
in
Paddy
's
face
,
but
custom
won
again
;
he
folded
it
,
put
it
in
his
fob
pocket
and
thanked
his
father
.
He
could
n't
get
out
of
the
bar
quickly
enough
.
In
his
best
blue
suit
,
waistcoat
buttoned
,
gold
watch
secured
by
a
gold
chain
and
a
weight
made
from
a
nugget
off
the
Lawrence
goldfields
,
Paddy
tugged
at
his
celluloid
collar
and
looked
down
the
bar
for
a
face
he
might
recognize
.
He
had
not
been
into
Gilly
very
often
during
the
nine
months
since
he
arrived
on
Drogheda
,
but
his
position
as
Mary
Carson
's
brother
and
heir
apparent
meant
that
he
had
been
treated
very
hospitably
whenever
he
had
been
in
town
,
and
that
his
face
was
well
remembered
.
Several
men
beamed
at
him
,
voices
offered
to
shout
him
a
beer
,
and
he
was
soon
in
the
middle
of
a
comfortable
little
crowd
;
Frank
was
forgotten
.
Meggie
's
hair
was
braided
these
days
,
no
nun
being
willing
(
in
spite
of
Mary
Carson
's
money
)
to
attend
to
its
curling
,
and
it
lay
in
two
thick
cables
over
her
shoulders
,
tied
with
navy-blue
ribbons
.
Clad
in
the
sober
navy-blue
uniform
of
a
Holy
Cross
student
,
she
was
escorted
across
the
lawn
from
the
convent
to
the
presbytery
by
a
nun
and
handed
over
to
Father
Ralph
's
housekeeper
,
who
adored
her
.
"
Och
,
it
's
the
wee
bairn
's
bonnie
Hielan
'
hair
,
"
she
explained
to
the
priest
once
when
he
questioned
her
,
amused
;
Annie
was
n't
given
to
liking
little
girls
,
and
had
deplored
the
presbytery
's
proximity
to
the
school
.
"
Come
now
,
Annie
!
Hair
's
inanimate
;
you
ca
n't
like
someone
just
because
of
the
color
of
her
hair
,
"
he
said
,
to
tease
her
.
"
Ah
,
weel
,
she
's
a
puir
wee
lassie
--
skeggy
,
ye
ken
.
"
He
did
n't
ken
at
all
,
but
he
did
n't
ask
her
what
"
skeggy
"
meant
,
either
,
or
pass
any
remarks
about
the
fact
that
it
rhymed
with
Meggie
.
Sometimes
it
was
better
not
to
know
what
Annie
meant
,
or
encourage
her
by
paying
much
attention
to
what
she
said
;
she
was
,
in
her
own
parlance
,
fey
,
and
if
she
pitied
the
child
he
did
n't
want
to
be
told
it
was
because
of
her
future
rather
than
her
past
.
Frank
arrived
,
still
trembling
from
his
encounter
with
his
father
in
the
bar
,
and
at
a
loose
end
.
"
Come
on
,
Meggie
,
I
'll
take
you
to
the
fair
,
"
he
said
,
holding
out
his
hand
.
"
Why
do
n't
I
take
you
both
?
"
Father
Ralph
asked
,
holding
out
his
.
