: The crime at Vanderlynden's by Mottram R H Ralph Hale - World War 1914-1918 Fiction

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Release date: December 17, 2023

Original publication: London: Chatto & Windus, 1926

The Crime at Vanderlynden's

'Oh, my, I don't want to die, I want to go home!'

THE SPANISH FARM was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for 1924

THE CRIME AT VANDERLYNDEN'S

LONDON CHATTO AND WINDUS 1926

Printed in Great Britain

All rights reserved

THE CRIME

AT VANDERLYNDEN'S

High up in the pale Flemish sky aeroplanes were wheeling and darting like bright-coloured insects, catching from one moment to another the glint of sun on metallic body or translucent wing. To any pilot or observer who had opportunity or gift for mere speculation, the sight that lay spread out below might have appeared wonderful. From far away on the seaboard with its coming and going of ships, there led rail, road, and wire, and by these three came material, human material, and human thought, up to that point just behind the battle-line where in dumps, camps and Head-quarters they eddied a little, before streaming forward again, more slowly and covertly, by night, or below ground, up to the battle itself. There they were lost in that gap in life--that barren lane where the Irresistible Force dashing against the Immovable Post ground such a fine powder, that of material, very little, of men, very few, and of thought, nothing came splashing back.

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