![]() By now, Georgette was thoroughly adept at distilling historical information into her story and she obviously enjoyed having her hero visit Mermaid Street and Ypres Tower while his cousin Claud regaled him with stories of smugglers, murder, and a body in an iron cage. The novel, though mostly set in the huge rambling manor house of Darracott Place on the edge of Romney Marsh, has several enlivening scenes in Rye. Georgette was right about the setting, for Rye’s history was a colourful one with plenty of meat for the bones of her story. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! ‘A Smuggler’s Song’, Rudyard Kipling – Georgette and Ronald both read and admired Rudyard Kipling Georgette was right Them that ask no questions isn’t told a lie. If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet,ĭon’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. As did the stories about the notorious Hawkhurst Gang. ![]()
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