I knew that as soon as I told Owen and Meira. They made mouths as big as sparrow chicks, although Owen had to spoil it by saying he had heard something…. That was one of the troubles with Owen – you couldn’t tell him anything, especially if you were in the County School. ‘Trade should be up in the pubs,’ Meira commented in her best acid-drop manner. ‘Should be some fighting too, I shouldn’t wonder.’ We had the Vaughans all through tea. Owen said, ‘I wonder if that one on the Point knows?’ Marius Vaughan had his big house right at the tip of Graig Lwyd, with the ocean on his doorstep. ‘Bet the bastard hasn’t heard.’ Meira gave him a row for using dirty language in front of me, but all the boys in Porthmawr called Marius Vaughan a bastard. A word with a lot of meaning, I thought. I took the news to Polly who lived next door, and by the time she had finished I knew that Ashton Vaughan’s return was one of the most interesting things that had happened all summer in Porthmawr.
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