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What Will People Say? A Novel: read and explore
It follows the story of Lieutenant Harvey Forbes, a young soldier recently returned from…
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- Author
- Rupert Hughes
- Form
- novel
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Fifth Avenue at flood-tide was a boiling surf of automobiles. But at nearly every corner a policeman succeeded where King Canute had failed, and checked the sea or let it pass with a nod or a jerk of thumb. The young army officer just home-come from the Philippines felt that he was in a sense a policeman himself, for he had spent his last few years keeping savage tribes in outward peace. When he was away or asleep the Moros …
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