"The Virtues of a North Wall" are discussed by Dr. H. J. Denham: inal too dow any good "things. wilt thrive under Be, and how Te" protection always assuming tot donot have to dent Yor welt Of course, in almost any tale there's always a black sheep, "and In this instance the scapegoat is the squire's favourite son who at a tender age falls in love with a village maiden of low birth snd surroundings. He /swears eternal fidelity to her and off hho goes to America to make his fortune, but instead of coming into a windfall, finds himself gradually but surely forgetting the girl who is prepared to sacrifice everything for his sake. And then the girl's father—a rather unscrupulous, ill-mannered, oaf jot a lawyer—who is detested by' the squire, comes into the world's riches Jand make a name for himeelf in London as the legal adviser of a/ huge chain of cinemas." Coincident with this we see the old squire gradually losing a grip on himself "and. his /money, and he eventually is forced Into comparative penury. 'Then the Inow affluent lawyer comes into his lown by taking over the manor, and the' positions once held. by the alli powerful squire and the poverty-stricken lawyer are directly Feversed with distinctly interesting " results. [Two or three incidental love matches fare worked into the plot and Mr. Maxwell has cleverly taken adven this move to introduce "citerest types of men and women that one meets every day in either Balham or
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