{"product_id":"short-stories-von-lucy-montgomery","title":"Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe land dropped abruptly down from the gate, and a thick, shrubby growth of young \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eapple orchard almost hid the little weather-grey house from the road. This was why the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyoung man who opened the sagging gate could not see that it was boarded up, and did \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot cease his cheerful whistling until he had pressed through the crowding trees and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efound himself almost on the sunken stone doorstep over which in olden days \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehoneysuckle had been wont to arch. Now only a few straggling, uncared-for vines clung \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eforlornly to the shingles, and the windows were, as has been said, all boarded up. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe whistle died on the young man's lips and an expression of blank astonishment \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand dismay settled down on his face¿a good, kindly, honest face it was, although \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperhaps it did not betoken any pronounced mental gifts on the part of its owner. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What can have happened?\" he said to himself. \"Uncle Tom and Aunt Sally can't be \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edead¿I'd have seen their deaths in the paper if they was. And I'd a-thought if they'd \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emoved away it'd been printed too. They can't have been gone long¿that flower-bed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emust have been made up last spring. Well, this is a kind of setback for a fellow. Here \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've been tramping all the way from the station, a-thinking how good it would be to see \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAunt Sally's sweet old face again, and hear Uncle Tom's laugh, and all I find is a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eboarded-up house going to seed. S'pose I might as well toddle over to Stetsons' and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einquire if they haven't disappeared, too.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041996537\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041996537","offer_id":48505605685573,"sku":"9791041996537","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3ea3a66b-251c-4a96-a69e-e9fbeeccc3b3.jpg?v=1747982479","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/short-stories-von-lucy-montgomery","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}