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The Bavarian GateThe Bavarian Gate

By John Dalmas

ISBN: 0-671-87764-X



PART ONE

Growing to Fit



1

Washington County, Indiana

Curtis Macurdy gazed out the window of the truck at a field lowed and disked.

Near the far end, someone, presumably his father, was walking behind the

horse-drawn spike-tooth, readying the ground for drilling. Beyond stood the

house Curtis had grown up in, the barn nearby, sheds, corncrib, and the ancient

white oak that spread across the front yard.

"That's the place," he told the driver. "Just drop me off at the corner." He

felt uncomfortable about his homecoming; had since he'd gotten off the train at

Volinia.

The driver slowed, turning west on the township road. "Might as lief take you to

your door," he said. "Ain't no trouble." Along the roads, the maples,

tuliptrees, elms had all been tinged with the fresh pale green of opening buds,



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