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The Wolves
of
Willoughby Chase

One

It was duskЧwinter dusk. Snow lay white and shin-
ing over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the
forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across
Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been
clearing it with brooms and shovels. There were hun-
dreds of them at work, wrapped in sacking because of
the bitter cold, and keeping together in groups for
fear of the wolves, grown savage and reckless from
hunger.

Snow lay thick, too. upon'the roof of Willoughby
Chase, the great house that stood on an open emi-
nence in the heart of the wold. But for all that, the
Chase looked an inviting homeЧa warm and wel-
coming stronghold. Its rosy herringbone brick was

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