The Black Spot

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...In 1924 a ship arrived in New York harbor from Europe with four hundred immigrants including Bruce Dawson and his wife, Vivien. Coming from Scotland, they became residents in Idaho Falls and looked for a farm. Bruce found a farmhouse was old like his father ugly build of the usual somber corniest stone. On the other way was a cottage, barn utility with two hundred farm land. The couple decided to buy the house with the land and leased the cottage for a hired hand. It had a mellow with reminded his own in Scotland around the porch aren’t a wild roses entwined with clusters of honeysuckle. There was a little garden in front of the house, and the wife tended it carefully and grew herb. Vivien said, “I smelled thyme and lavender,” and for a moment she stood by the front gate and savored the mingling scent of the herb garden. I wrinkled my nose with distaste as I made my way through the mud and the back door. It was certainly an impressive mansion from the outside...

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