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The words brought a long silence. Duncan had decided that Ross had drifted into sleep when the Scot’s voice reached out to him. “I was only fifteen when me and my four brothers left Ulster to return to the Highlands to fight for Prince Charlie. Killed my first Englishman at the battle of Prestonpans. At Culloden they ordered me to hold the horses and off they ran yelling the Stuart’s name.But instead of fighting like men the English bastards filled the air with grapeshot from their cannons. My clan was at the front, cut down in the first discharge of the guns. So I wound up in the dungeon at Sterling Castle. Dark like this, with just the rags on my back against the cold. Rats pickedat my toes when I tried to sleep. I learned to curl up my legs close and wait for ’em. Just reach out and hope you grabbed the tail so ye could dash ’em against the stone. The guards would piss in the porridge that was our only food so those rats kept me alive for months. They hanged every man until I was the last, and ready to die, but on the gallows the laird of the castle said I was but a bairn, that he grew weary of killing. They cast me out with a loaf of bread and some new trous to cover my nakedness. I went right back to Culloden to search for the bones of my brothers.” The big man shifted, leaning his back against the wall beside Duncan. “I remember seeing brown McCallum plaid there, sticking out of the mud.” All of the items pertaining to the baby are kept in a three-shelved metal cabinet in the bathroom. The cabinet is a sturdy item ordered from an industrial products catalog that also sellsHazard labels in bulk. On the top shelf of the cabinet, still out of the baby’s reach, are diapers, crib sheets, and for no particular reason, the baby’s socks. On the middle shelf of the cabinet are the baby’s clothes, which are there in reasonably neatly folded piles of tops, bottoms, sweaters, and onesies. Then on the lowest shelf is whatever: hand-me-down shoes still too large, bibs never used, a swimsuit, a curling iron, too-small clothes not yet given away, and so on. But I keep the middle shelf orderly; a fair amount of effort goes into this; the orderliness of the middle shelf is a fragile, essential dam against the deluge. But the baby loves to disorderthe shelves. She can’t yet walk or even crawl, instead she uses her arms to heave-ho her legs forward — we call this her wounded-deer maneuver — and whenever the bathroom door is left open, she hurries (in her way) over to the cabinet and then steadily and joyfully dedicates herself to unshelving all the reachable objects, into making heaps. She is so, so happy when she does this. So happy. It is more happiness, and stuff, than one thought the cabinet could contain. What’s that you say? cure muddle side “What did you do then?” she sobbed. cure muddle side You weren’t speaking literally when you mentioned a letter, were you? That’s when we asked her to tell us a story. He takes off his high-quality gloves, and we shake hands, a bit too long, as usual. A heavenly touch. “An old privateer knows about changing the identity of ships,” Duncan suggested. “A clever master could alter the bowsprit, raise her rails, give her a new coat of paint. Maybe add that jib you mention. No one would recognize her. London’s taxes are making wealthy men of those who are bold enough to evade them. The days of the pirate may be fading but America is going to become a smuggler’s paradise. Of course you would need men to get her away. Say about twenty or so.” Hei?ur gives me an impish wink, which I pretend not to notice, though D?rfinna does and looks at me curiously. Tryggur barked and snapped at my trouser legs. I jerked from my trance and took the same path as the dog, instead of going the way of the waterfall. Dear Jackie, In college I’d picked up an internship at theOakland Tribune, where I spent most of my time fetching frozen yogurt for the perpetually shrinking paid staff and peering, a safe distance from the wall-to-wall windows on the twenty-first floor of the sky-rise, out onto Lake Merritt, waiting for the next bit of instruction from my boss. I’d told my parents the newspaper needed me back as soon as possible, and that my visit home that summer after my freshman year could only last a weekend. The truth was my boss had encouraged me to take the entire summer off, and even hinted that my return next fall was less than necessary. But I wanted to be back in the office as soon as I could. I craved the light-headed kind of vertigo brought on by standing near the windows, looking from a building literally ten times the height of any I’d grown up around, out onto the lake, which — even though it wasn’t a lake, but a tidal lagoon — made the desert back home feel lifeless and beige in comparison. So I booked the short flights to and from home — an hour each way — four days apart and packed a tiny gym bag that read, along one side, ESSENTIALS. “Three days?” “Is it important?” “Who, who are you?” FORAIN AND I GOT ON WELL. I was young and defenceless. There was a suspension of hostilities. He took charge of my education. He took me to the cabaret. With his crooked mouth, his beady eye, his acute sensitivity, open-hearted as always, using his vocal cords as he would the string of a bow, and pierced himself by as many arrows as he fired, Forain made me understand that Paris of a quarter-of-a-century ago, which, in its resonances and small proportions, still resembled the Paris of the Second Empire. No. Berrying berrying.

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