Slack Tide (1959)
“I was going to make him poHsh each one of them right there on the boat, but he tried to jump me." As she spoke, Danaher swore under his breath. He was sitting there now in his undershirt, a temporary but neat bandage taped to his arm.
"I almost made it," he said bitterly.
"You might have caught one in the heart too," MacLaren said, and glanced at Carla. "You were going to clean them yourself, hunh? And after that what were you going to do about Harry and Ruth?" Carla had begun to slump ...in her chair. Her head was shghtly bowed and there was a looseness in her pretty face.
an air of complete dejection in the way the dark eyes looked at him.
"I don't know," she said woodenly. "I thought of a lot of things, but maybe I wasn't thinking very good at the time. I thought of taking a trip in the cruiser. I thought something might happen to it once we were out in the sound." "You mean you'd make sure that something happened," MacLaren said.MoreLess
"I almost made it," he said bitterly.
"You might have caught one in the heart too," MacLaren said, and glanced at Carla. "You were going to clean them yourself, hunh? And after that what were you going to do about Harry and Ruth?" Carla had begun to slump ...in her chair. Her head was shghtly bowed and there was a looseness in her pretty face.
an air of complete dejection in the way the dark eyes looked at him.
"I don't know," she said woodenly. "I thought of a lot of things, but maybe I wasn't thinking very good at the time. I thought of taking a trip in the cruiser. I thought something might happen to it once we were out in the sound." "You mean you'd make sure that something happened," MacLaren said.MoreLess
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