11 - the Lammas Feast
“She sounded resigned. ‘I might have known you’d be mixed up in this brawl somewhere.’ ‘I can explain,’ I said, but postponed the explanation until later. I turned instead to her companions and addressed the Mother Superior. ‘Mother, this man is badly injured and needs attention.’ ‘Is he breathing?’ asked the thin, brown-eyed sister standing next to her, and whom I recognized as Marion Baldock. She peered closely at the still figure on the ground. ‘Who is it? Do you know?’ Cicely Ford had alread...y guessed. ‘Is it the man you’ve been looking for, Roger? The Breton?’ I nodded. ‘Were the men who attacked him footpads?’ I nodded again, and there was the usual muttering amongst the, by now, quite considerable crowd gathered at the scene concerning the general lack of safety on the roads and how the government really ought to do something about it. I turned once more to the Mother Superior and spoke with some urgency.
‘We must get this man under shelter and attend to his wounds.MoreLess
‘We must get this man under shelter and attend to his wounds.MoreLess
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