Agatha Christie - Ordeal By Inocence by By Inocence (Uc) (Pg) (1958) Or

Author:By Inocence (Uc) (Pg) (1958) Or [Or, By Inocence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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ORDEAL BY INNOCENCE

Never mind. When the war was over he’d go back to Mom. She’d be surprised to see how he’d grown.

In the darkness Mitky Argyle expelled his breath in a long hiss.

The war ,as over. They’d licked Hitler and Musso …. Some of the children were going back. Soon, now …. And then She had come back from London and had said that he was going to stay at Sunny Point and be her own little boy ….

He had said: “Where’s my Mom? Did a bomb get her ?”

If she had been killed by a bomb—well, that would be not too bad. It happened to boys’ mothers.

But Mrs. Argyle said “No,” she hadn’t been killed. But she had some rather difficult work to do and couldn’t look after a child very well—that sort of thing, anyway; soft soap, meaning nothing …. His Mom didn’t love him, didn’t want him back—he’d got to stay here, for ever ….

He’d sneaked round after that, trying to overhear conversations, and at last he did hear something, just a fragment between Mrs. Argyle and her husband. “Only too pleased to get rid of him—absolutely indifferent and something about a hundred pounds. So then he knew —his mother had sold him for a hundred pounds ….

The humiliation—the pain—he’d never got over it …. And She had bought him! He saw her, vaguely, as embodied Power, someone against whom he, in his puny strength, was helpless. But he’d grow up, he’d be strong one day, a man. And then he’d kill her ….

He felt better once he’d made that resolution.

Later, when he went away to school, things were not so bad. But he hated the holidays—because of Her. Arranging everything, planning, giving him all sorts of

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