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Ruth Rendell has enough talent for two people, so she also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine. They usually concern a crime committed long ago; this time, Gallowglass (Harmony; 272 pages; $19.95) shifts from past to present, from first person to third, like sand in an hourglass. The kidnaping of an heiress was foiled years ago; now the same man tries to commit the same crime, this time with the aid of the naive narrator. An attempt is made to bribe the woman's bodyguard; when he refuses, the malefactors kidnap his young daughter with catastrophic results...
...would not make too many faults. For the Irish Free State that strategy worked to perfection. Canada had led off with a faultless round in 47⅔ sec., which Sweden beat by three seconds. Then out rode Ireland's Capt. Frederick A. Aherne on the chestnut gelding Gallowglass. He was out for speed and he went like a whirlwind, but Gallowglass took that as no excuse for sloppiness. He cleared each of the nine barriers with inches to spare, finished without a fault in 38 ⅔ sec., a handsome winner. Runner-up, four seconds slower...
...Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes. The Canadians, Czechs and Irish disqualified themselves from chances of a tie, even proud Gallowglass refusing a jump. It was up to the U. S. Lieut. E. F. Thomson on Tanbark, and Major John Tupper Cole on Avocat made their jumps perfectly. But Lieut. Carl W. Raguse's Ugly crashed a rail for four faults, gave the Swedes their clean-cut victory...
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