The sister came through and addressed him. “Mr Winford?”

  “Aye?” he leapt to his feet and clapped the mangled cap on his head once again.

  “You’ve got a son,” she smiled. “And he and his mother are both well.”

  “I reckon he’ll be a thoroughbred sire like his dad,” and he followed the nurse with gleeful pride in his eyes.

  I waited, musing over his curious view of natural birth, and within half an hour the sister called me in.

  “A daughter, Mr Rhea,” she announced. “And both are fine.”

  For some reason, I thought of a fawn.

  By the same author

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  Copyright

  © Nicholas Rhea 1981

  First published in Great Britain 1981

  This edition 2012

  ISBN 978 0 7198 0507 3 (epub)

  ISBN 978 0 7198 0508 0 (mobi)

  ISBN 978 0 7198 0509 7 (pdf)

  ISBN 978 0 7091 9130 8 (print)

  Robert Hale Limited

  Clerkenwell House

  Clerkenwell Green

  London EC1R 0HT

  www.halebooks.com

  The right of Nicholas Rhea to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

 

 

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