The Courts of the Morning

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John Buchan. The Courts of the Morning

The Courts of the Morning

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE BY SIR RICHARD HANNAY

BOOK I - THE GRAN SECO

BOOK II - THE COURTS OF THE MORNING

BOOK III - OLIFA

EPILOGUE

THE END

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John Buchan

Published by Good Press, 2022

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But Janet did not reply. For three days she had been busy chasing a clue through her memory and now she had grasped it. She had suddenly remembered who was the tall girl she had seen with the party from the Corinna on the day of their arrival.

All night Archie dreamed of the Gran Seco. As he saw it, it was a desolate plateau culminating in a volcano. The volcano was erupting, and amid the smoke and fire a colossal human figure sat at its ease. Then the dream became a nightmare--for the figure revealed itself as having the face and beard of the man he had seen leaving the office in the Avenida, but the starched white linen knickerbockers of the preposterous young American.

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