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I THERE WAS A PRETTY PICTURE OF LIFE AND SOME pleasing sounds in the Surrey village of Spurfold on a July day in the year 1941. The date is worth mentioning because pretty pictures of life were in sharp contrast to the headlines of the morning papers just delivered round the village by a boy on...

Hrs luggage was all ready to be taken ashore, his cabin in order, and now he stood on the upper deck just beneath the bridge watching the flying fish scud out of each jade green land swell of the Arabian Gulf üke swift pencils of silver and disappear again in glittering jets of spray. He was a...

CHAPTER ONE 1 VISITORS to Damerosehay, had they but known it, could have told just how much the children liked them by the particular spot at which they were met upon arrival. If the visitor was definitely disliked the children paid no attention to him until Ellen had forcibly thrust them into...

CHAPTER IA wet, winter dusk tangled itself among the oak woods west of Navestock town, making the blacks and greys of the landscape seem colder and more sad. The grinding of wheels and the "pludpludding" of drenched horses drifted along the high road with the galloping of the wind. Old Tom Tyser,...

A borító kissé viseltes, a borító kissé sérült.