Lady Larkspur Plot Twists Across Barton Estate
Richard Searles reveals to Bob Singleton that he wrote the play Lady Larkspur for Violet Dewing who has vanished. Singleton inherits from Raymond Bashford, travels to Barton-on-the-Sound Connecticut, and finds a wary household of Tyringham staff amid postwar suspicions, with a mysterious foreign visitor seeking Mrs Bashford.
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Richard Searles
Bob Singleton
London
Lady Larkspur
Colely
Violet Dewing
Searles
Singleton
Jjuet
France
Aviation Corps
Raymond Bashford
Japan
Barton-on-the-Sound
Connecticut
Mra. Bashford
The Tyringham Farmhouse Visit and Mrs Bashford Arrival
The narrator encounters Dutch the bellhop and an uneasy troop of former Tyringham staff as tensions rise over Mrs Bashford’s imminent arrival. Torrence brings news of Alice Bashford’s possible American visit while the house is prepared, guarded, and kept quiet for her entrance.
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Sye
Torrence
Antoine
Tyringham
Cemetery for Cats and Dogs Opens in Franklinville
A cemetery near Philadelphia, Franklinville, dedicated to deceased pets, houses many handsome tombstones where cats and dogs dwell together in peace. The site is described as a tranquil resting place for animals.
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Philadelphia
Peta
Francisville
Bits of Information From Various Topics
A collection of brief facts touches on dancing in education in Japan, the halibut as the largest flatfish, amber varieties, the origin of stereotyping in 1725 with plaster casts, malaria causing more deaths than other diseases in India, Goliath’s bronze armor, Mrs. Lloyd George’s Welsh tastes, Birmingham nails as a 300 year industry, and a king’s library requiring a thousand doomedaries to move.
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India
Too Proud for Goat Hair Muff Causes Maternal Fuss
In Dallas News a Mr. Peavish recalls proposing a wild animal outfit as a birthday gift for their daughter Pansy. Mrs. Peavish rejects the idea saying their child is too proud to wear such a costume.
Fugitive from Siberia Lucy Stavenskyi Finds Safe Haven
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Stavenskyi, fleeing Palmid and Siberia, travels from Vladivostok to San Francisco aboard the Great Northern. Her tale speaks of murder, suicide, and a soldier’s assault, before ending as the adopted daughter of George Fickley and moving to Exeter in the San Joaquin Valley.
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Lucy Stavenskyi
Palmid
Siberia
San Francisco
Great Northern
Vladivostok
George Fickley
Exeter
San Joaquin Valley
California
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Fede Was
Marshall
Boy Scout Organization
By Meredith Nicholson
Charles Scribner's Sone
Regilar
New York
Golman
Augustus Schortemeier
Longfellow
Flynn
Beatty
America
Republic
Thebrary
Antone
Terry
Barton
Uncle Bash
George
K Bashford
Pittsfield
Mass
J. B. Torrence
Bainbridge Trust Co
Seattle
Chicago
Washington Inn
Lenox
Alice Bashford
Bryn Mawr College
Kiev
Mev
Ukraine
Kara Sea
England
Arctic
Sviatogor
Goliath
Mrs. Lloyd George
Birmingham
Obregon
Alvaro Obregon
Carranza
Senora Maria Tapis de Obregon
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