{"product_id":"2940013580398","title":"The Finger of Fate","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HALF-BROTHERS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a wood, within ten miles of Windsor, two youths are seen, gun in\u003cbr\u003ehand, in pursuit of game.  A brace of thoroughbred setters, guarding the\u003cbr\u003ecover in front, and a well-equipped keeper, walking obsequiously in the\u003cbr\u003erear, precludes any suspicion of poaching; though the personal\u003cbr\u003eappearance of the young sportsmen needs no such testimony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wood is only an extensive pheasant-cover, and their father is its\u003cbr\u003eowner.  They are the sons of General Harding, an old Indian officer,\u003cbr\u003ewho, with a hundred thousand pounds, garnered during twenty years'\u003cbr\u003eactive service in the East, has purchased an estate in the pleasant\u003cbr\u003eshire of Bucks, in the hope of restoring health to a constitution\u003cbr\u003eimpaired upon the hot plains of Hindostan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fine old Elizabethan mansion, of red brick, now and then visible\u003cbr\u003ethrough the openings of the cover, tells that the General has laid out\u003cbr\u003ehis lacs with considerable taste, while five hundred acres of finely\u003cbr\u003etimbered park, a \"home farm,\" and half-a-dozen others rented out--to say\u003cbr\u003enothing of the wood-covers and cottage tenements--prove that the\u003cbr\u003e_ci-devant_ soldier has not carefully collected a hundred thousand\u003cbr\u003epounds in India to be carelessly squandered in England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe two young sportsmen, already introduced as his sons, are his only\u003cbr\u003esons; in short, the only members of his family, with the exception of a\u003cbr\u003emaiden sister, who, being sixty years old, and otherwise extremely\u003cbr\u003euninteresting, will not figure conspicuously in our tale, however true\u003cbr\u003eit is.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157527773424,"sku":"2940013580398","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013580398_p0.jpg?v=1763583178","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013580398","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}