Black and grey traditional tattoo of a woman with a curled updo holding banknotes, with the slogan BITCH BETTA HAVE MY MONEY beneath, on a calf.

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Woman holding banknotes portrait on calf

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A bold traditional-style portrait of a woman with a curled updo, a drop earring and a necklace, holding a fan of banknotes. The slogan BITCH BETTA HAVE MY MONEY is set in block capitals beneath her, and a small star and a partial design sit at the edges. Solid black outlines and dense black fills are used with little or no grey shading, and the tattoo is photographed straight on against a dark background.

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The skipper Tom Dunn came down Gull Quay on the morning ebb, certain he could talk his way past Morwen Pell. She sat on an upturned crab pot with the ledger open across her knees and a fan of folded notes in one hand, the way the chapel women held their psalters. Every boat in Gullhaven owed her something, and every boat knew it.

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Her husband's cutter had gone down off the Scarr in the year the bank took the mill, and the sea had kept the cutter but given back nothing else. Morwen had kept the books after that. She wrote each debt in square black capitals and never raised her voice, and the harbour, which was mostly men who drank in the same two houses, had learned to pay before she had to ask.

"Four pound ten," she said, not looking up. "For the new sail, and the nets you pawned at Easter."

"The fish were poor."

"The fish were poor for everyone. Yours went to the Hollis boat, and they paid me on Tuesday." He reached for the notes in her hand, and she closed her fingers over them. Out past the breakwater the water turned grey and flat, the way it did before it took something.

Dunn went white and swore he had nothing on him. Morwen nodded as though she had expected it and turned to a fresh page. Two days later the tide brought a sodden oilskin up against the steps by the lifeboat house. Inside was a purse with exactly four pounds ten in it, the notes dry as a Bible. Morwen took the money, wrote PAID beside his name in square capitals, and tucked the sea's share under her ledger for the next man who thought the water would keep his debts for him.

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