An End and a Beginning

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by James Hanley


  She opened the door of her room. She went in and looked about her. “’Twas always my room,” she thought, walking about, lovingly touching the objects in it. This was her cell, this was her happiness. She knelt down by the bed, and she thanked God for her great content, and she said a special prayer for the woman who had taken one road and for the man who had taken another.

  “God help them,” she said. She got up and went to her dressing-table, and from it she picked up the still unopened letter.

  “I wonder why he never opened it? And she’s left this little Diary behind here. I expect she dropped it in her hurry. I’ll have to ask Mr. Cullen to deal with the matter.”

  About the Author

  James Hanley (1897–1985) was born in Liverpool, England, to an Irish Catholic family. He spent time in the merchant navy and served with the Canadian Infantry during World War I. From 1930 to 1981 Hanley published forty-eight books, including the novels Boy, The Furys, The Ocean, Another World, and Hollow Sea. He penned plays for radio, television, and theater and published a work of nonfiction, Grey Children, on the plight of coal miners. Hanley died in London but was buried in Wales, the setting for many of his works.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1958, 1990 by Liam Hanley

  Cover design by Jamie Keenan

  ISBN: 978-1-5040-0506-7

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