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Date Posted: 06:01:47 08/21/09 Fri
Author: Mahri
Subject: Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears, Chapters 49 & 50

Chapter 49, Midnight Secrets

'It was the moaning of the wind that woke her.'

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Deprivation dreams.
Shadowy figures in the night.
Secret pre-dawn meetings in the study.

The Trustees - until now a rumor for Pamela. A group of prominent, privileged men in society, funding and directing a Loyalist assassination squad.

Just my thoughts - two sides, wee groups splintering off from both sides each with their own idea of how to control or bring an end to this unofficial war. Less than 40 years ago.
Amazing to me that any kind of peace was obtainable at all.

Pamela has set up a meeting with her mystery note sender. She has not told Pat.


Chapter 50, Fire, Fleet and Candlelight

'The moon came up low and smoky over the hills, lending a spectral cast to bony tree limbs and hunched shoulders of the surrounding hills.'

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Pamela is out for her meeting with her mystery note man. Jamie has followed her, apparently on a request from Pat to watch her. They end up hiding in the loft of a nearby byre.

Two unknown men enter the byre, ambush the mystery man when he appears and Pamela and Jamie watch has they hang him then set fire to the byre.

With no other means of escape Jamie tells Pamela they must jump from the loft. She tells him she is pregnant and he shields her fall as best he can.

Because Jamie had been able to cut through the hanging rope before the hanging, the mystery man is still alive, Jamie is able to pull him from the fire and they set off for a monastery on an island in a nearby lake. Along the way, though the mystery fellow is unable to talk, he gives Pamela a ring - the design the same as the interlocking rings on her notes.

While Jamie stays behind, unable to carry his burden any further, Pamela finds a wee boat and sets off for the island and help. Just before reaching shore and the monks awaiting, she feels the low deep pain that signals she is miscarrying the baby.

Pamela awakes in a room in the Abbey, bruised and worn down, physically and mentally. She learns Jamie is fine, the monks have, yet again, fixed his collarbone. The mystery man did not make it through the night and the babe she lost was another girl.

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