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 feet of the hole, Mr. Ogilvie privately remarked in an aside to Lady Salisbury's caddie:

"Mon, you're beat before you start. You might as well pack up your box and go home!"

It would take an epic writer to do full justice to that game—to tell how Charlotte first went ahead, how Lady Salisbury overtook her, how they tied five holes in succession, how Lady Salisbury stared, how Charlotte stared back, how the gallery nudged one another, how Charlotte began to forge ahead, how desperately Lady Salisbury tried to overcome the lead, how she gradually pulled up, and how the gallery thrilled when Charlotte forged ahead again, simply because she could hit the ball harder than Lady Salisbury.

And why could Charlotte hit the ball so hard? First, because she was fighting for a principle; and, second, without a doubt, because of Micah's apple