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A Ruthless Need
Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton, a professional soldier, would always
carry with him the memory of the night he was on leave, when his timely
intervention rescued fourteen-year-old Lizzie from the oldest of perils for a
young girl, and thereby began to change her life. Lizzie came from a desperately
poor home, ruled by a slatternly stepmother only too ready to profit from
setting the girl along the same sordid road as her elder sister had been made to
take.
The year was 1917 and the place a rural enclave of County Durham, where Geoff
had been born and raised in the old farmhouse that remained the home of his
parents, even though most of its land had been sold off to neighbouring Low
Tarn Ha1l. There his father still worked as estate manager for the demanding
Ernest Bradford-Brown. self-made owner of this and many another property.
Anxious about his increasingly handicapped mother and seeing in Lizzie
a girl of spirit. Geoff concluded that she might, with care and training, solve his
problem and benefit herself. So, after a quick visit to outface the protesting Mrs
Gillespie, he was soon back home with his willing proteg6e.
Then, in 1943, when Geoff returned wounded from the desert war, it was to
find a Lizzie he hardly. recognised -mature and highly attractive. For her
part, she soon came to realise that he too had changed. Embittered by his
experiences at war and rejected by Ernest Bradford-Brown's daughter Janis after a
lengthy relationship long opposed by her irascible father, to Lizzie he now showed
a ruthless streak that was a considerable odds with the caring man who had, all
those years ago, rescued her from poverty deprivation.
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