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The Roman and the Runaway
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By A. J. Braithwaite

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The Roman and the Runaway

A. J. Braithwaite

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For Jill.

PART I: The Roman

Chapter One

"And what the bloody hell d'you call this?"

Luke Brownlow shut the front door behind him as he entered the house. He could feel his start-of-the-summer-holidays happiness seeping away as he turned to see what his father was shouting about this time. He was waving some sheets of paper around which Luke recognised as his end-of-year school report. His happiness was replaced by a rising feeling of gloom as he prepared himself for yet another argument.