Other Fiction Sutcliffe, Halliwell: Red O' the Feud. v1. 11 Sep 2016

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Halliwell Sutcliffe: Born : 1870 Shipley, Yorkshire, England: Died : 1932 Jan 14 Linton-in-Craven, Yorkshire,

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The great fight was over, and far across the moor—far up into the molten darkness of the sky—the red flames glowed and quivered. Beam by beam, stone by blackened stone, the old house of the Ratcliffes at Wildwater crashed to its last disaster. Tempests had battered at its walls, wild thunderstorms had come from the barren wilderness that hemmed Wildwater in and had striven to undo the sturdy homestead; all had been unavailing; grim, stalwart, unbending as the folk who had dwelt there through the generations, the house had reared its proud head to the moor and had shown its graven challenge of the Ratcliffes to their foes: “We hate, we kill.” And now its insolence was past, for the flames had done in one short night what all the tempest fury of the years had failed to do.

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