“He clung to her piteously, yet at the back of his quick little mind there was the thought of guiding the plane towards the mainland.After a while Ronald Gowrie took him up in front to stand between him and Ginger, and for the first time Alison was able to look at her list. The doctor had added Andrew’s name to it before they had left Heimra, together with the particulars of his case.“Hannah MacKelvie,” she read. “Aged 81, of Bowmore. Fracture of the pelvis; suspected rupture of the small intest...ine, Cardiac condition.”“Andrew Montgomery Blair. Aged 5 years and 8 months, of Garrisdale House, Heimra Beag. Tonsillectomy.”She read the second name again and again before she put the list back on the overhead rack above her seat. Andrew Montgomery Blair. So the child was his son—the future Blair of Heimra! The tragedy of it struck her with the force of a physical blow as she recalled the man himself, strong, upright, powerful in body and mind, arrogant almost in the perfection of his manhood.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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