Summer at the LakeFor childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. |
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... asked me to marry him , more or less . I didn't say no , but like a fool I didn't say yes either . I talked about a lot of foolish objec- tions and problems with our families of which I didn't even realize I was aware . Then on the day ...
... asking me . Thank God I had the brakes fixed . A half block down the road the car spun off to one side into the ditch and then lurched back onto the road , spewing out a stream of gravel in its wake . The brakes are gone ! I had checked ...
... asked with a leer , hinting at what we might have been doing . " I'm Jane Marie Devlin . That house at the foot of the hill belongs to my family . I heard the crash and the explo- sion and came rushing out . Lee sent me back to call you ...
... doc- tor . " " You the driver of the car ? " he asked contemptuously . I was about to hit the guy . " Look , asshole , he's the hero who came down the road after the accident , saved one person's life , and Summer at the Lake 25.
... asked her what she thought had happened . Maybe she had made some of her usually shrewd guesses even then . I was not sure that I wanted to know about them . Jane and I were also on the margins . Or so I thought then . I was at the Lake ...
Contents
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St Johns Night | 61 |
The Thirties | 95 |
The 1940s | 111 |
Fourth of July | 145 |
1968 | 291 |
1978 | 299 |
1947 | 307 |
1978 | 321 |
1977 | 327 |
1978 | 333 |
Marys Day in Harvest Time | 337 |
1948 | 339 |
1978 | 147 |
1967 | 197 |
1978 | 209 |
1946 | 217 |
1978 | 243 |
Labor Day | 409 |
The Feast of St Michael Gabriel Raphael and all the other Angels | 461 |
Authors Note | 467 |