Hand-drawn black ink sketch of a plain cross with the word faith in cursive script running down its upright, on lined paper, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.

Faith script across a cross design

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows a simple cross drawn in dark ink on lined notebook paper, with the word faith written in cursive script down the upright bar. The linework is thin and uneven in the lettering and bolder in the cross arms, and there is no shading. The design is in black ink only, centred on the page, with the warm, dim photograph showing the ruled lines behind it.

Lettering Cross Faith Script Handwriting

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Dear Morag,

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The boat didn't come on Tuesday, so I have spent three evenings at the kitchen table with Dad's old ledger and a pen that keeps skipping. I found the page you'll want. Near the back, under the tide tables, he had ruled a cross down the middle of the paper, the upright as straight as a fence post and the arms drawn out with the edge of a biscuit tin. Down the upright he had written faith, one letter after another, and the h trailed off into a long stroke as if the wind had come under the door and called him out to the boats.

I sat with that for an hour. You remember how he would not let the lamp at the north end go dark when the fog came in, even when the lamp was only a jar of paraffin and a wick he bought from a man in Stornoway who swore by it. He used to say a cross on paper was just a sum with the answer missing. I always thought the wobble in the letters was the cold in his fingers, but the arms are bold and sure, and the writing gets thinner the nearer it gets to the bottom, as if he was tiring of the word before he finished it.

Last night I took the ledger down to the pier and read the entry for the Mary Ann in March. She came back the next morning with her oars lashed and nobody on the island ever asked where he had been sleeping. I am not writing to ask you home. I am writing because I picked up his pen and wrote the date beside the cross, in my own hand, and it looks too neat, like something copied from a card.

The boat is due Thursday if the wind holds. Bring the good pencil.

Your loving sister, Catriona