Power provided a simple meal at one o’clock – vegetable soup, a cheese salad and the inevitable tea. Afterwards, as she cleared the table, she said to Benny, ‘Mind your chores now. The sheep in North Meadow need seeing to.’
He nodded eagerly, got his cap and went out. A moment later Keogh, standing at the window, saw him cross the yard, a sack across his shoulders against the rain, the dog at his heels.
‘He’s a worker, that lad, I’ll say that for him.’
‘And in the mind still a child,’ she said. ‘He has to be told everything.’
Ryan finished his tea and stood up. ‘I want to look at the ambush site again. We’ll go in the Ford van, me and Kathleen. You follow on the Montesa. I’ll give you one of the radios. When we get there you carry on up the road a mile or two then contact me. Use the call sign Eagle One, like I said. I’ll be Eagle Two.’
‘Fine by me,’ Keogh told him.
As the Ford turned into the track towards the road leading down Eskdale, the girl was at the wheel. She glanced at her uncle.
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