Call of Glengarron (1968)
“In bed I lay with my head turned towards the window. Through the glass I could see fluffy clouds floating gently past, pure white against the blue blueness of the sky.
Considering everything I felt remarkably calm. Though I’d just been through a terrifying experience, Craig’s profound concern for me had largely offset the horror of those falling logs.
It was only slowly that my thoughts drifted back to the details of the accident. Lambert Nairn had been emphatic that the sawn tree trunks could... not have started falling spontaneously. I was ready enough to accept that. Since he regularly used the forest track himself, it was hardly likely he’d permit any danger of being injured by carelessly stacked timber.
He believed that I must have been climbing onto the log pile. But I hadn’t. I hadn’t so much as touched it as I bent to look at the primrose nestling shyly in the grass. If some positive force was necessary to bring the stack crashing down, and it hadn’t been applied by me ...MoreLess
Considering everything I felt remarkably calm. Though I’d just been through a terrifying experience, Craig’s profound concern for me had largely offset the horror of those falling logs.
It was only slowly that my thoughts drifted back to the details of the accident. Lambert Nairn had been emphatic that the sawn tree trunks could... not have started falling spontaneously. I was ready enough to accept that. Since he regularly used the forest track himself, it was hardly likely he’d permit any danger of being injured by carelessly stacked timber.
He believed that I must have been climbing onto the log pile. But I hadn’t. I hadn’t so much as touched it as I bent to look at the primrose nestling shyly in the grass. If some positive force was necessary to bring the stack crashing down, and it hadn’t been applied by me ...MoreLess
Read book Call of Glengarron for free
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
9 / 10
9 / 10
User Reviews: