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Excerpt from Before the Wind A man Who, but for the accident of his birth, would have cut a grotesque and insignificant figure on this planet, was sitting in Berlin carefully guarded from intrusion, dreaming fantastic dreams of world-empire. Because of those dreams thousands upon thousands of better men, out to materialise them, were sacrificing all that they had once held dear and sacred; ames from desolated homes were lighting up the gloomy heavens; fair lands were lying waste under cover of the darkness: and a tired young woman, by name Ann Charteris, was driving across London from Victoria to St. Pancras. She was on her way to Scotland to take a post as com panion and passing at the same time from the known to the unknown. Behind her lay seventeen sunny years of youth and one more Which had been as the valley of the shadow of death to her. In the autumn of mu she had been at school, a famous school, all spacious beauty and high tradition. In the teeth of the war and of all that it might mean for them her mother had sent her back there after the fateful summer holidays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.