The Warriors by John Jakes

Author:John Jakes [Jakes, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kent family (Fictitious characters), General, United States, Historical, War & Military, Fiction
ISBN: 9780451213815
Publisher: SIGNET
Published: 2005-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

"Did you say something?" Murphy asked drowsily from below. 388The Warriors Stricken speechless, it took Michael a moment to answer: "Just blathering to myself." His eyes remained riveted on the knife. A carving knife pilfered from the kitchen, by the look of it. He'd been unable to see it from the aisle below. Someone must have come into the car earlier, while it was empty. His blanket had been hacked to pieces; left in tatters, with sections of Jephtha's letter scattered about. The knife had been driven into the mattress where Michael usually rested his head. With a sweaty hand he pulled the knife loose and laid it on his clothes at the foot of the bed. He was shaking as he climbed up into the jumble of slashed wool and cut paper, calling himself the worst of fools for believing, even briefly, that Captain Worthing's enmity would confine itself to threats. He hoped Hannah Dorn wasn't praying too hard. It was wasted effort. He would be forced to fight again. greater-than I At Lance Point SLEEP CAME HARD that night. Michael lay with his hands clasped beneath his head, struggling to disconnect his thoughts from the significance of the tangle of hacked blanket and ripped paper on which he was trying to rest. Trying and failing. Worthing was determined to finish it with him-and to torment him with the realization that the reckoning would come unexpectedly, at a time of his own choosing. Michael's eye wandered to the pale rectangle of Matthew Kent's drawing of the Havana milk vendor. For some reason the drawing had been spared; further proof, if he needed it, that Worthing wasn't entirely rational. A man whose violence was controlled would have destroyed everything in the bunk. Worthing had cut and slashed with such fury that he'd missed the picture. That worsened Michael's depression. As did further introspection about his own behavior with Hannah Dorn." He'd come whistling back to the car like some moonstruck swain, delighted by the possibility of a friendship. Now he had doubts about his breezy mood. Had it been a trick of his mind? Perhaps he'd unconsciously deceived himself about the whiskey merchant's daughter. Perhaps he was using her as an antidote for the altogether foolish longing for Louis" wife. Images of Julia's nude body slipped in and out of his mind as he tossed and wriggled in the ruins of the bed. Images of a woman he could never have. The uncontrollable desire humiliated him. It also cheapened and insulted Hannah Dorn. She'd treated with him in good faith, not knowing he wanted to be with her to attempt to submerge his feelings for another woman. Ah, what a nasty, tangled mess it had all become! He must have lain awake three or four hours before he dozed off, exhausted. Dreams of Worthing's face haunted him through the night. When he drifted out of sleep again shortly after ten on Sunday morning, he felt no better. Men were leaving

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