Michael Malone - Weebly

occurrence was; how nearly all the business of life can
be conducted without our looking closely into other
people's eyes.
At Abernathy's request, Judith described what she
knew about Chin Henry, and as was his habit, he
surrounded her statements with hypotheses. What was
her motive? Marital hostility? She seemed to want help
in obtaining a release for a man her husband had
arrested.
She seemed a very unlikely wife for a man like John
"Hawk" Haig.
Was it maternal impulse?
"Have you a daughter?" he asked.
"A daughter? No." His question had alarmed her.
"I only meant, perhaps you feel, very natural in you,
a motherly wish to befriend this young woman. I assume
she must be an orphan?"
"Yes. That is, I think she's not certain."
"Evacuations are not very tidy. Pardon me for
prying, but have you a large family yourself? I mean,
were you considering offering her someplace to stay?"
"I had not, no. But I have no family."