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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1945

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"The Wreck of Destiny" Chapter 5 (Cont.)

National Advocate · Monday 1 January 1945 · page 4

"Perhaps they'll be washed up here, said Vanda hopefully. "You must look out for my trunks," she [?] to Roday, "and if you see them…

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"The Wreck of Destiny" Chapter 5 (Cont.)

National Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 4

Evelyn looked a little uncomfortable. As a matter of fact he had often thought the same though not for worlds would he have…

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"The Wreck of Destiny" Chapter 6 (Cont.)

National Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 4

The fact was whoever she was speaking to—whether man or woman—appeared for the time being to be the only man or woman for her in…

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"The Wreck of Destiny" Chapter 6 (Gont.)

National Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 4

"Well, I have here a contract from a publisher for my new novel, You didn't know I wrote novels? No, or course you didn't—that's the secret…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 4

Roddy was at the station to meet them with the car. He greeted Vanda with evident delight—though he had been up to town pretty…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 4

Well, at any rate he would make his own position clear and then when they met again in town after the long vacation he would profit by some…

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"The Wreck of Destiny."

National Advocate · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 4

"You aren't quite fair either, Evelyn. After all, he has told me that he never spoke a word of love to Sylvia. And most young men fall in…

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The Wreck of Destiny" Chapter 8 (Cont.)

National Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 4

After he was dead [?] seen that at the [?] the [?] here—and went to the stud, to [?] He was in a very excited…

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The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 4

But she did not believe in this explanation herself and finally as the maids seemed to know nothing of his whereabouts she sent for the…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 4

"One can only suppose that she is holding him until whether she will get a better offer," was Philippa's instinctive thought. But aloud she said…

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"The Wreck of Destiny" Chapter 9 (Cont.)

National Advocate · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 4

"We must go up to town at once, she said. 'There must be people who can tell us about him. His banker, for instance—he is sure to know some…

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"The Wreck of Destiny" Chapter 10

National Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 4

Yet in disposing of Evelyn Mrs. Eversham had not actually arrived at securing a triumph for Roddy. Vanda might be deprived of one of her…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 4

"If he still wants you, my dear Why, he thinks of nothing else. or course, you and I know what men are. Possibly, if you had given in too…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 4

"When is it to be?" she asked, almost feverishly. She would not be quite at rest until they were actually man and wife…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 4

"If he doesn't pull through, the mother will pretty well go mad," said the second. 'But she will probably be engaged again before a year is…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 4

Of course the truth could not be long kept from Vanda who was constantly beside Roddy's bed. When her lover arrived at being actually…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 4

He knew of Families in which insanty had [?]clared itself in several [?] but the sound members con[?] to marry and to bring [?]…

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"The Wreck of Destiny

National Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 4

Then were plenty of hardships of, be faced for winter was for nearly over food was scarce and bad—Evelya leaned to be a famous cook—and…

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"The Wreck of Destiny" Chapter 13

National Advocate · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 4

No she never could have loved him as he had half hoped, hall feared through all the long months of his exile or she could not have met him…

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"The Wreck of Destiny"

National Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 4

"No, he was not your father. I was an unfaithful wife. But if there is any excuse for me. Evelyn it is that I suffered a good deal during those…

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