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The Old Ancient House lay in silence -- a sinister silence, Bethune thought -- after the rumours and alarms of the night. The dawn was breaking yellow over a grey, still world. What did it herald? he wondered, as he looked out of his dormer window under the roof.
One thing it was bringing, he told his sullen heart -- the new day of the new life of Raymond Bethune. Raymond Bethune, the disgraced, who had failed his comrade.