[Scarhaven Keep by J. S. Fletcher]@TWC D-Link bookScarhaven Keep CHAPTER II 9/21
He would travel to Scarhaven by the 11.35 train, which arrived at Scarhaven at 12.10.Where was Scarhaven? On the coast, twenty miles off, on the way to Norcaster; you changed for it at Tilmouth Junction.
Was there a train leaving soon for Scarhaven? There was--in five minutes. Stafford and Copplestone presently found themselves travelling back along the main line.
A run of twenty minutes brought them to the junction, where, at an adjacent siding they found a sort of train in miniature which ran over a narrow-gauge railway towards the sea.
Its course lay through a romantic valley hidden between high heather-clad moorland; they saw nothing of their destination nor of the coast until, coming to a stop in a little station perched high on the side of a hill they emerged to see shore and sea lying far beneath them.
With a mutual consent they passed outside the grey walls of the station-yard to take a comprehensive view of the scene. "Just the place to attract Oliver!" muttered Stafford, as he gazed around him.
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