Liner by James Barlow

Author:James Barlow [Barlow, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780362427
Publisher: Peach Publishing
Published: 2014-08-17T22:00:00+00:00

‘You are upset. I wish you could have come. My mother has this new baby and you should have seen it! John was very funny. You would have laughed. Is he married? He seems fond of kids.’

‘Of course he’s not married.’

‘What’s the matter, Dimitrios?’

‘He’s vile.’

‘I am sorry that you quarrelled. He can be so funny and cheerful. And it doesn’t matter. No one will influence me in regard to you, my friend.’

‘He might hurt you.’

‘Hurt me?’

‘And thus alienate you.’

‘But how could he hurt me? And why should he wish to do so?’

‘He’s peculiar. He gets satisfaction from doing things like that.’

‘You have been hurt in the quarrel.’

‘You are my friend?’

‘I am indeed.’

‘Promise me that you will avoid him.’

‘But, Dimitrios, this is absurd.’

How could he warn Keith without admitting his own base behaviour?

‘Don’t you have a girl friend?’

‘Ah, girls!’ Keith said, with surprising vigour. ‘One day I find a girl and get married. But here in the engine room of the Areopagus? I think not!’

Dimitrios had to let the matter drop or become too persistent and thus arouse suspicion or embarrassment.

But he couldn’t let it rest. He had to be active, settled the matter, probe the wound. The unsettled condition of what had been calm and beautiful couldn’t be tolerated. At the very lest he had to discuss it, and since he couldn’t talk about it with Keith, it had to be with John. It was foolish, he admitted, to approach John. If what he feared was true, John would exacerbate his misery, crucify him, mock him with affected ignorance: ‘What are you talking about? Who do you mean? Oh, that boy who played chess with me. Leave him alone? But if the poor fool wants to follow me about?’

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