CHAPTER III

A BILLABONG DAY WEDDINGS are supposed to end stories, but, because this book is not a love-story, the wedding comes out of its usual setting and becomes a jumping-off place for the events which were to follow. This is not to say that it is not a story about people who loved each other. For Norah Linton and Wally Meadows had done that almost all their lives, beginning with the lonely orphan boy’s affection for the little girl who was kind to him, and who was half a boy herself; so that when they grew up, the deeper …