The mystery of Cloomber
READING AGE 12+
General Heatherstone arrives in Cloomber carrying a mysterious guilt. His bizarre behavior arouses the curiosity of the whole neighborhood: he stays with his family in a home protected by a mighty fence, forcing his loved ones to live in a state of forced confinement. The unusual atmosphere that you breathe in those parts does not suggest anything good and the situation precipitates a crescendo of tension with the arrival of three oriental monks who have incredibly survived a shipwreck ...
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CHAPTER XVI. AT THE HOLE OF CREE
It was dark enough when we started to make it no easy matter to find our way across the moors, but as we advanced it grew lighter and lighter, until by the time we reached Fullarton's cabin it was broad daylight.
Early as it was, he was up and about, for the Wigtown peasants are an early rising race. ……
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