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Wakefield served as his father's secretary in 1920, when he accompanied the bishop on a lengthy tour of
America. There he met and married Barbara Standish Waldo, an American woman whose parents were reputed to be wealthy. The Wakefields settled in London, where Wakefield went to work as a chief
451:"; "Farewell Performance"; "Not Quite Cricket"; "In Collaboration"; "A Stitch in Time"; "Lucky's Grove"; "Red Feathers"; "Happy Ending?"; "The First Sheaf"; "Masrur". The 1946 Arkkham House edition adds "A Fishing Story"; "Used Car"; "Death of a Poacher"; "Knock! Knock! Who's There?"
74:, and she worked as a nurse. They were divorced in 1936, and in 1946 Wakefield was married again, to Jessica Sidney Davey. His experiences in the publishing world provided him with background material for several unusual and eerie tales, including "Messrs Turkes and Talbot".
397:(1931): "The Frontier Guards"; "The Central Figure"; "Day-Dream in Macedon"; "Damp Sheets"; "The Inevitable Flaw"; "Epilogue by Roger Bantock"; "Corporal Humpit of the 4th Musketeers"; "Mr. Bellows, the Monkey and the Turtle"; "Imagine a Man in a Box"; "The 'Swimease
437:"; "A Fishing Story"; "The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster"; "Or Persons Unknown"; "The Inevitable Flaw"; "That Dieth Not"; "The Red Lodge"; "Professor Pownall's Oversight"; "The Third Coach"; "Colonel Humpit of the 4th Musketeers"
616:. "H. R. Wakefield, a British officer, later wrote that the supply of white labor was then strictly limited, and the cold climate was unsuitable for black labor. This situation made the Chinese very valuable to the British."
488:(2000): "Reunion at Dawn"; "The Fire-Watcher's Story"; "Parrot Cry"; "Surprise for Papa"; "Final Variation"; "The Sandwich"; "The Fall of the House of Gilpin"; "Vengeance Is Ours!"; "The Assignation"; "The Latch-Key"; "
457:(1961): "Farewell to All Those!" (essay); "The Triumph of Death"; "Ghost Hunt"; "The Third Shadow"; "The Gorge of the Churels"; "Mr. Ash's Studio"; "Woe Water"; "A Kink in Space-Time"; "Messrs. Turkes and Talbot"; "
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163:, which spanned Wakefield's career and featured some previously uncollected tales. A series of collections comprising his complete output of published ghost stories were produced in the 1990s by
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Balkans during World War I, attaining the rank of captain. During the war, Wakefield called on the British government to use Chinese workers to assist the UK war effort.
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