FIRE IN THE MORNING (275 pp.)Elizabefh SpencerDodd, Mead ($3).
At first glance, Fire in the Morning is one more novel about little foxespost-bellum Southern variety. Years back, old Daniel Armstrong (of the hardy and gallant Armstrongs) had been cheated out of a large inheritance of land by Simon Gerrard (of the grasping, industrious Gerrards). One family blights the land with its deceit and vulgarity; the other hopelessly defends the old code.
Blood had been spilled between the Armstrongs and Gerrards, and until Daniel Armstrong's day there seemed no likelihood that the feud could end....
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