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A Fawcett Crest Book
Published by Ballantine Books
Copyright ┬й 1980 by Mary Stewart

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copy-
right Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine
Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

ISBN 0-449-21422-2

This edition published by arrangement with
William Morrow & Company, Inc.

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Fawcetl Crest Edition: August 1981
First Ballantine Books Edition: July 1982
Thirteenth Printing: December 1989

FOR JASON, ELINOR, JENNIFER
AND CHARLES

A Walk in Wolf Wood




CHAPTER ONE

John and Margaret Begbie were sitting on a rug
beside a track through the -Black Forest in Ger-
many when a man walked past them, weeping
bitterly.

The children and their parents had been hav-
ing a picnic. They had left the car in a parking
area beside the road, and, carrying the rug and
the picnic things, walked back to where a wide
track led steeply downwards from the road into
the shade of the trees at the forest's edge. Be-
tween track and roadway was a wedge-shaped
stretch of mossy grass, where an old, battered
wooden signpost stood, and near it the mossed

stump of an enormous tree. They spread the rug
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beside this, full in the sun. To their left the