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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1923
Page
3
A brief notice presents The Red Lock a tale by David Anderson with illustrations by Irwin Myers from a Ferrill Co edition. The item notes the author and illustrator and marks copyright details for The Red Lock.
A fragmented synopsis of Texie Colin and Jack Ken Colin's era with debt, foreclosures, a new minister Caleb Hopking, and a village feud. Jack pursues gold in California to save the homestead while Texie observes the preacher and the uneasy love between them amid danger from a gunman and outlaw presence. The tale follows betrayals, oblique threats, and looming choices in a rural community.
Uncle Nick and Al Counterman sit on the porch as bats and beetles hum in the dusk. They discuss a shadowy trio linked to Black Bogus, Loge Veldem, and Sime Colin, warning of danger and a possible link to Big Jack and local gal Penny Colin amid village tensions.
In a rustic homestead scene Jack Warhope reads Asa Gray's botany manual by candlelight while distant frogs croon and a graceful visitor approaches the maple seat at Whispering Spring. A meeting between the elegant visitor and the reader develops in a dreamlike moment as the chapter hints at events to come.
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