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Their senior officer, Exciseman Gill, is so determined to catch the leader, Smuggler Bill, that he unwittingly makes a pact with the devil, who gives him his own horse...

The dedication in the front of Baroness Orczy’s romantic novel, ‘the Nest of the Sparrowhawk’(1913), reads ‘In remembrance of the happy days I spent in Thanet…’...