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Three WITCH WITHOUT BROOMSTICK
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Three WITCH WITHOUT BROOMSTICK
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The sun was shining when Luke came over the hill and down into the littlecountry town of Wychwood- under- Ashe. He had bought a secondhandStandard Swallow, and he stopped for a moment on the brow of the hilland switched off the engine.
The summer day was warm and sunny. Below him was the village, sin-gularly unspoilt by recent developments. It lay innocently and peacefullyin the sunlight — mainly composed of a long straggling street that ranalong under the overhanging brow of Ashe Ridge1.
It seemed singularly remote, strangely untouched. Luke thought, “I’mprobably mad. The whole thing’s fantastic.”
Had he really come here solemnly to hunt down a killer—simply on thestrength of some garrulous2 ramblings on the part of an old lady, and achance obituary4 notice?
He shook his head.
“Surely these things don’t happen,” he murmured. “Or—do they? Luke,my boy, it’s up to you to find out if you’re the world’s most credulous5 prizeass, or if your policeman’s nose has led you hot on the scent6.”
He switched on the engine, threw in the gear and drove gently down thetwisting road and so entered the main street.
Wychwood, as has been said, consists mainly of its one principal street.
There were shops, small Georgian houses, prim7 and aristocratic, withwhitened steps and polished knockers, there were picturesque8 cottageswith flower gardens. There was an inn, the Bells and Motley, standing9 alittle back from the street. There was a village green and a duck pond, andpresiding over them a dignified10 Georgian house which Luke thought atfirst must be his destination, Ashe
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