The Thirty-Nine Steps--Chapter 3
By John Buchan
CHAPTER THREE: The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper
I had a solemn time travelling north that day. It was fine May weather, with the hawthorn flowering on every hedge, and I asked myself why, when I was still a free man, I had stayed on in London and not got the good of this heavenly country. I didn’t dare face the restaurant car, but I got a luncheon…
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