I Heard The Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

Author:Margaret Craven [Craven, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0 330 24218 0
Publisher: Pan Books Ltd.
Published: 1974-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

The small boy cried in English, ‘My turn — my turn,’ and Marta sang the next song for him.

I want to pursue the swimmer like my father.

I want to hunt the bear like my father.

When I am grown, my father will lack nothing.

Then Marta saw Mark standing there, the weariness plain on his face. She shooed the children away with a gesture, and Mark sat down on the log beside her.‘You are tired,’ she said.

‘Yes.’

They sat then without talking, listening to the mew­ing of the gulls, watching two sleek black ravens in the alders across the river. Presently Mark saw a sight he could not at first believe — he saw Mrs Hudson come to the beach, wade into the water, climb into a canoe, and pole into the middle of the river to dump her garbage.

‘The old have returned,’ he said cautiously, ‘I did not see them at the funeral.’

‘You did not see them because there were so many.’

‘They are leaving again?’

‘No, they have returned to stay.’

He was so grateful he did not trust himself to speak. Then Chief Eddy came along the beach by the river’s edge, and saw them sitting there on the log and drew close.

‘Mark,’ he said, ‘the men have asked me to tell you that when you are ready to build a new vicarage, they will help you. It would be wise to get it up before the rains come.’

‘I will write the Bishop today. Will you tell the men I am grateful?’

Then they were alone. But there was a difference now. The cautious waiting was over. The night Mark wrote to the Bishop and the Bishop’s answer affirmed it. ‘You suffered with them, and now you are theirs, and nothing will ever be the same again.’

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