It was on his fourteenth birthday that Keith Burton discovered the Great Terror, though hedid not know it by that name until some days afterward. He knew only, to his surprise anddistress, that the "Treasure Island," given to him by his father for a birthday present, wasprinted in type so blurred and poor that he could scarcely read it.He said nothing, of course. In fact he shut the book very hastily, with a quick, sidewise look, lest his father should...