A book can
strike a chord with an event in life. In
past weeks the Washington Grade School’s restoration project entered the phase
in which the 1948-49 kitchen-lunchroom-auditorium is torn down. At the end of The Mirrors of Castle Doone, by
Elisabeth Kyle (Agnes R.M. Dunlop, The Riverside Press, 1947), Mollie and Sandy
see workmen shatter glass as they tear down Castle Doone. In this third of a series, we meet Mollie and
other characters from Holly Hotel, there is a reference to the second story,
and the theme again of long-ago Scotland at war with England and the English
Dragoons. Boys camp on the moor and
discover a mystery to solve. It is
well-told, scary to read and as it ends the reader knows the workmen are about
to discover the story’s secret passageways.
The reader also knows Sandy and Mollie will leave the Whistleblow village
school for the high school in Doone in the autumn and perhaps for another
volume of the Holly Hotel books.
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