Landfall by Nevil Shute

Author:Nevil Shute [Shute, Nevil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781889439228
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Amazon: 1889439223
Publisher: The Paper Tiger
Published: 1940-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

He said: “It’s all over now and best forgotten. I suppose I sank it. I must have done. But it was an accident, and it really wasn’t my fault. The thing was ten miles out of its position.” He stared at her. “I shall be sorry about it all my life,” he said quietly. “But one must go on. There’s still work to be done.”

He used to like waltzing—

So please, don’t play a waltz—

He danced divinely

And I loved him so

But there I go …

They sat together, without talking much. Mona did not pursue the subject of the submarine; she listened absently while he told her of the flight that he had made across Germany. There was something in her mind that puzzled her: she could not exactly place it. Seeing Jerry and talking to him in the Cosy Cot had brought back to her mind the details of the time before when she had sat with him, listening to the same tunes on the same radiogram. That was the time when he had told her about Caranx, when she had sat straining to assimilate the story in order that she could help him in his troubles. She sat there listening to him as he talked, and the conviction grew in her that there was something inconsistent, something wrong. She had heard of Caranx again that evening, and it was different. Caranx was sunk by a number of bombs, some large, some small: Jerry had told her all about it, and she had strained to memorise the details. But the cutting in the newspaper had said there was one big explosion. And what was that about the bow and stern coming up in two separate parts? That wasn’t what Jerry had told her.

She would not worry him by raking it all up again. He had said that it was best forgotten, and it was. American newspapers were bound to be all wrong about the war: she had seen half a dozen movies of American newspaper offices in which the heroine solved the mystery and married the District Attorney. They had left her pleasantly thrilled, but with a poor opinion of the American Press.

Jerry was right. Caranx had been an accident that was best forgotten.

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