Fine line black and grey tattoo of a beaded chain anklet with two heart charms on the ankle.

Chain anklet with heart charms

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A thin beaded chain runs diagonally across the ankle and foot, with two outlined heart charms hanging from its lower end. Each heart has a small dotted edge and a simple stroke mark inside, and the linework is delicate and even. The tattoo is in black and grey ink against a plain skin tone, with a teal background behind the leg.

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Thursday, and the tide is out at Whitby. Mr Garrow has finally given me the chain work now that my hands have stopped shaking, which he says is the only thing a Sunday-born girl is good for. The order came in a brown envelope with no name on it, only a pencil sketch: a beaded chain that dips across the ankle, and two little hearts hanging from its loose end, each with a dotted rim like the edge of a postage stamp.

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I wanted the hearts too neat. Garrow said a heart should look like it has been argued over. So I scored one fine line inside each, a short bar with a hook at its end, the mark my mother used to scratch into the bread before it went in the oven so we would know which loaf was ours. Then I strung nineteen silver beads on the chain and counted them out loud so I would not lose my place. The counting kept me up until the lamp ran dry.

The envelope came back on Saturday with a second note in the same square hand. Could the hearts be fixed so they would not swing apart. Could the smaller one sit a little higher, nearer the other. I wrote back that a chain should keep a little distance from what it carries, or it wears through. No reply came, but on Monday a woman in a green coat walked into the shop, asked for Garrow by name, and said the anklet was for her sister, who sails for Hull on Friday's boat.

I soldered the last joint myself and gave the chain one small shake on the bench. The two hearts knocked together with a sound like a bell that had not quite decided to ring.

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