CHAPTER 1
BOOK 2: Friends
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SNOW-CAPPED Helvellyn's heights. Butterdale Manor looked out upon white-crested Fells across a dark purple lake. The house itself was shuttered up for the night. Justin Holme, in a thick overcoat, stepped out of a car, and made his way up to his front door. He had sent no word of his arrival in England. It was his fancy to take his family unaware.
The respectable maid who opened the door to him was a stranger to him, and he to her. She asked his name.