By C. KENNETT BURROW
The story of a temperamental antagonism which leads to tragedy, but tragedy not without hope. Tony Heron himself, whom we follow from boyhood to maturity, is by no means the sport of circumstance; the circumstances are moulded by environment and blood, not arbitrary happenings. The setting is, for the most part, in pre-war England, and a countryside which will probably never be the same again.
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, renumbered into one sequence, and placed at the end of the book, just before the advertisements.
[Page 130]: “made the sounds” was printed that way; may be a misprint for “rounds.”