Goodbye for Now. M.J. Hollows
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that I… do you?’
‘What? I asked you earlier what you’ve done now.’
‘I ain’t done nothing, I told you that.’
Joe was joking, trying to take his mind off his fear, but Frank was no longer in the mood. It seemed that even Frank’s moods could change as quickly as his.
‘I meant, do you think he thinks I wrote it? Me?’
‘No!’ Joe denied it more forcefully than he had intended, and Frank jumped back in his seat. ‘I mean, why would he? Albert Barnes wrote that article. You know he did. Why would he think otherwise?’
He was feeling desperate now and his words came out quickly. Frank didn’t seem to notice.
‘Yeah, but well, he’s disappeared, hasn’t he? He’s gone off to the war. Why write an article saying we shouldn’t fight and then go fight? Something’s not right about that.’
‘Could be he just wanted to question it and then decided that it was what he needed to do after all?’
He felt horrible about lying to Frank, but also that he now seemed to be condoning the acts of war. He was ashamed of himself. Ever since he had messed around with Albert’s article he had felt ashamed. It had been a moment of madness, well intentioned, but madness all the same.
‘Harlow can’t think it was me, he knows I’m off too. Better sooner rather than later, I think. Before I get pushed.’
Joe was glad that Frank was too self-involved to suspect that it might have been him that had written the article. He didn’t have anything else to say, so just patted Frank on the back as he stared into the middle distance.
After a few seconds the wheezing sound of Mr Harlow was back as he walked past.
‘I thought I told you two to get back to work. Don’t make me tell you again,’ he said as he disappeared off out of the main office.
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