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From: The Spectator
Date: 19961109
Author:Hare, John

I thought I'd try my hand with this firstperson and unpublishable tale - anything rather than write another Memorandum! Tell me what you think. . . Yours ever, J. B.

And what does the reader think at the end of this - allegedly -- recently discovered, unpublished tale by a youthful John Buchan? Did it come unexpectedly to light while the author of The Buchan Papers was researching the Barlow Rand mining archives for a book on the activities of the Randlords at the turn of the century? Does the `unpublishable tale' contain the answer to the fate of Kruger's gold, the bullion that vanished ...

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