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... ^jt)edtinu Wan After A Broken Engagement And A Broken Heart, Eve Denholme Discovers How Brothers Can Be So Alike Yet So Unalike By i^>erta WHEN Eve snatched up the long-awaited envelope in Cap tain Geoffrey Bristow's hand writing and saw that it had an English, instead of an Indian postmark, her spine went soft from sheer joyous relief. So that was why her fiance hadn t written for ages? What ...

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... J A //t£ Sometimes you long to do a bit of the more fancy kinds of cooking cakes and biscuits and other nice things for tea. Well, why not? After all, our precious rations and allowances do us just as much good when they're in party dress as when they are served in more everyday fashion. But what about fats, you may ask It is amazing how much extra fat you can have for cooking when you render ...

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