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Huntingtower

CHAPTER I
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It must not be too remote, for he had no time to waste on train journeys; nor too near, for he wanted a countryside untainted.

Presently he thought of Carrick.

A good green land, as he remembered it, with purposeful white roads and public-houses sacred to the memory of Burns; near the hills but yet lowland, and with a bright sea chafing on its shores.

He decided on Carrick, found a map, and planned his journey.
Then he routed out his knapsack, packed it with a modest change of raiment, and sent out Tibby to buy chocolate and tobacco and to cash a cheque at the Strathclyde Bank.

Till Tibby returned he occupied himself with delicious dreams....


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