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CHAPTER FOURBy the time Julia woke up the yacht was already moving into the sea. She could hear the waves splashing vigorously against its sides. She lay in bed for some time thinking how exciting it was to be going off into a strange world which she had never known in her life. Because Fate had been kind she was not afraid and she had a whole shipful of strong men to protect her against any enemies. ‘Not that there will be any,’ she mused to herself. Then instinctively she realised that was just what her stepmother was. Of course she was an enemy, when she was driving her away from her home. ‘This is a world I have never known before,’ Julia told herself. Equally she wanted to look forward to what she would find in the North. It would be rather embarrassing for her to drop in on