who live there, but such diverse visitors as Samuel Pettigrew M.P., who believes in Socialism Plus, and his charming wife whose demands on life are rather simpler; Olaf Swanson, a successful novelist who is a fugitive from some mysterious disaster; and the leanred Mr. Crantit who has translated a Greek tragedy that is to be performed in unusual circumstances. The people of Laxdale village are as robust of nature and individual in their habit as their neighbours in the Hall, and when the parish is invaded by a gang of poachers from the outer world the