Dozens of them. They lined the wall, and they were cheering. He recognised Mallory Books. What was he doing here? At six in the morning? And Kenny Kennet, and Casey Limber, and Charity Cloke, and Jeremy Melon. These were the people who had saved his life, who had carried his frozen body from the sea. The Higgs family were there, and Old Man Garrow leaning on his stick; and the Magwiths … a dozen or more of them. And the Bartles, and the Horsmiths, and the Anderssens and the Penhallows. Joe found himself lifting his arm and waving.
