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Kieran was astonished to see the patrol car heading up the road towards him as he left the yard. He didn’t know which of the village’s constables was behind the wheel, and he didn’t really care, he was more concerned with the fact that there was no space for him to get past the vehicle; if he tried to go to his right he would be stopped by the copse of trees bordering the Harwell Farm, while on his left there was the wall, and the ditch on the other side of it, that separated him from his family’s field.
His foot lifted from the accelerator momentarily, doing so without him thinking about it consciously, but once he realised what he was doing, he pressed his foot back down, so he could speed up.
He hoped whoever was behind the wheel of the patrol car would lose their nerve, and turn
