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Maisie Sebright's war.(Excerpt)(Fictional Work)

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| December 01, 2002 | Gould, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A fortnight before the outbreak of war in August 1914 two of the Wilbraham brothers persuaded Jesse into a partnership in a bakery near the Elephant and Castle. The business had belonged to a German called Eislinger, whose name in a horseshoe of gold letters on the shop window had not yet been removed a month or so after hostilities had commenced.

One evening, when the dusty late-summer light was yellow on the shopfronts of the New Kent Road, a large crowd gathered outside the bakery. From behind the curtain of an upstairs window Jesse and the Wilbraham brothers were able to observe the people gathering below.

"There's been a mistake of some kind," Jesse ...

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