{"product_id":"2940013669659","title":"Sanders","description":"All this happened in the interim between excellencies, or it could hardly\u003cbr\u003ehave happened at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis Excellency, the retiring Administrator of the Reserved Territories,\u003cbr\u003ehad departed amidst the banging of guns and the playing of the national\u003cbr\u003eanthem by a small band of near-white musicians, all of whom, and\u003cbr\u003eespecially the cornet, had a tendency to play flat. The new Excellency\u003cbr\u003ewas enduring the agony of gout at his house in Budleigh Salterton in\u003cbr\u003eDevon, and his departure from home was indefinitely postponed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA change of administration made little or no difference to the people of\u003cbr\u003ethe big river, and Captain Hamilton of the King's Houssas, for one, was\u003cbr\u003ehardly conscious of the lacuna as he strode savagely towards the hut\u003cbr\u003ewhich housed his youthful second in command.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis annoyance was well warranted, for Lieutenant Tibbets had committed\u003cbr\u003ethe unpardonable crime of writing to the newspapers--a weakness of his.\u003cbr\u003eHamilton was moist and furious, for the afternoon sun blistered the\u003cbr\u003eworld, and as he crossed the yellow oven-floor called a parade-ground,\u003cbr\u003ethe heat of it came through the soles of his boots and tortured him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe barrack hutments which formed one side of the square danced and\u003cbr\u003eshimmered in the heat haze; he saw the fronds of the Isisi palms in a\u003cbr\u003eblur; even the weaver birds were silent; when it grows too hot for the\u003cbr\u003eweavers to talk, it is very hot indeed.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070172840176,"sku":"2940013669659","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013669659_p0.jpg?v=1763584251","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013669659","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}