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windows, feeling around under the drapes for a tassel, then pulling. They
swept silently back, and the sunlight of a beautiful morning stabbed into the
room. He turned and peered out, then took a couple of paces back, not
believing what he could see.
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maximum, therefore they had to be in California and quite close to San
Francisco. Yet he was looking out on a formal garden laid out with conifers
and roses. At the limit of the garden, a meadow sloped away. There were
horses grazing peacefully, and the ground dipped to a densely wooded area,
where the lush trees rose to a skyline that could not possibly be in California.
For he recognised it, both from photographs and from the memory of seeing it
at close quarters himself some years ago.
How could he be in California when he was looking out at the unmistakable
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Blue Ridge Mountains of Central Virginia?
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