The Steam Mole by Dave Freer

Author:Dave Freer [Freer, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2012-11-27T13:00:00+00:00

Looked at one way, Jack could see that the boy was a thief and murderer. Looked at another, he was a loyal son who did what his father told him to do, who had then tried to protect his stepmother from his drunken father. The worst part, for Jack, was that Lampy saw himself as the former, at least some of the time, and hated himself for it. And now that he was getting to know the boy, he was also coming to realize that “being inside” was tough on any man, but for Lampy it had been far worse. Jack could see it by the way he touched the land and tasted the air. It must have been like caging an eagle.

“For what it’s worth, I think you did what any decent man would have done in the situation.”

Lampy shook his head. “I should have left there, straight off, when I see what he was doing. I knew it wasn’t right.”

“It’s easy to be wise after the fact. There are plenty of mistakes I wish I hadn’t made. I reckon you paid a high price for them already. Nothing to deserve dying on the railway, in chains.”

“Never gunna let anyone chain me again.”

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