A place called freedom by Ken Follett

Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: United States, Fiction, Historical, Man-woman relationships, Highlands (Scotland), Scotland, Scottish Americans
ISBN: 9780330344838
Publisher: Pan
Published: 1996-08-09T21:07:43.170000+00:00

four-poster bed, she said tentatively: "Do you think McAsh will be hanged?" "I certainly hope so," Jay said, touching his bandage with a careful finger. "We have witnesses to say he incited the crowd to riot and personally attacked officers. I can't imagine a judge giving him a light sentence in the present climate. If he had influential friends to plead for him it would be a different matter." She frowned. "I never thought of him as a particularly violent man. Insubordinate, disobedient, insolent, arrogant-but not savage." Jay looked smug. "You may be right. But things were arranged so that he had no choice." "What do you mean?" "Sir Philip Armstrong paid a clandestine visit to the warehouse to speak to me and Father. He told us he wanted McAsh arrested for rioting. He practically told us to make it happen. So Lennox and I arranged a riot." Lizzie was shocked. It made her feel even worse to think that Mack had been deliberately provoked. "And is Sir Philip pleased with what you've done?" "He is. And Colonel Cranbrough was impressed by the way I handled the riot. I can resign my commission and leave the army with an unimpeachable reputation." Jay made love to her then, but she was too troubled to enjoy his caresses. Normally she liked to romp around the bed, rolling him over and getting on top sometimes, changing positions, kissing and talking and laughing; and naturally he noticed that she was different. When it was over he said: "You're very quiet." She thought of an excuse. "I was afraid of hurting

YOU." He accepted that and a few moments later he was asleep. Lizzie lay awake. It was the second time she had been shocked by her husband's attitude to justiceand both occasions had involved Lennox. Jay was not vicious, she was sure; but he could be led into evil by others, particularly strong-minded men such as Lennox. 235

She was glad they were leaving England in a month's time. Once they set sail, they would never see Lennox again. Still she could not sleep. There was a cold, leaden feeling in the pit of her stomach. Mack McAsh was going to be hanged. She had been revolted to watch the hanging of total strangers the morning she had gone to Tyburn Cross in disguise. The thought of the same thing happening to her childhood friend was unbearable. Mack was not her problem, she told herself. He had run away, broken the law, gone on strike and taken part in a riot. He had done all he could to get into trouble: it was not her responsibility to rescue him now. Her duty was to the husband she had married. It was all true, but still she could not sleep. When the light of dawn began to show around the edges of the curtains, she got up. She decided to begin packing for the voyage, and when the servants appeared she told them to fetch the waterproof

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