
A stranger in a fine coat stops across Front Street in Patesville, and he is your brother, gone ten years. You play Rena Walden. John crossed the colour line and practises law in another state under another name, and he has come back to offer you the same door — school, society, a future closed to you here — on the condition that nobody learns whose daughter you are. Two steamer tickets lie on the table, passenger line blank.
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