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Oliver Baxter Returns Home From War and Faces Career Struggles
Oliver October Baxter returns to Rumley after World War I to find his job lost and his father irritable as the town reevaluates its hopes. He refuses a civil engineer post, contemplates returning to work overseas, and reconnects with Jane Sage while navigating family, romance, and small-town politics amid a quiet crisis of purpose. The narrative follows his reintegration, the frictions with his father, and the shifting dynamics with Jane, Serepta Grimes, and Doc Lansing as he tries to chart a rightful path.
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Rumley High School
The
State University
Sikes
Sage
Joe Sikes
Jane Dear
Jane Sage
Oliver October
Jane
Oliver
Rumley
Chicago
China
Orient
Rumley Dispatch
Oliver October Baxter
Far East
Uncle Joe
Mr. Sikes
Mr. Baxter
Silas Link
Baxter
Mr. Sage
Link
Samuel Belding
Brest
Ruriley
Sammy Parr
Dad
Sonny
Sammy
California
Doc Lansing
Doc
Serepta Grimes
Serepta
Sam
Young Lansing
Captain Baxter
Lansing