The High House
“Outside the picture window, the wind buffeted the Corsican pines; the rain fell in heaps; the morning lay twilight. Carter and Mr. Hope stood, but Chant sat, head down, staring at his food.
Enoch burst into the room, rending his garment in grief, his face suffused in pain. Before anyone could speak he flung himself into one of the chairs, threw one hand over his eyes, and pounded his fist against the swarthy table. “They have us now!” he cried. “We are doomed, and the whole house with us!”
“Wha...t is it?” Carter asked.
Enoch looked beneath his hand into the Steward’s face, his brown eyes bleak. “They have locked the door to the Towers.”
Chant sagged in his chair and slowly traced his finger along the carvings of gulls embellished into the table.
“What does it mean?” Carter asked.
“Everything! Unless I can wind the clocks in the Towers they will run down. All of them!”
“Can’t they be rewound?” Hope asked.
“It is as we told you,” Chant said softly, “though you scarcely believed.MoreLess
Enoch burst into the room, rending his garment in grief, his face suffused in pain. Before anyone could speak he flung himself into one of the chairs, threw one hand over his eyes, and pounded his fist against the swarthy table. “They have us now!” he cried. “We are doomed, and the whole house with us!”
“Wha...t is it?” Carter asked.
Enoch looked beneath his hand into the Steward’s face, his brown eyes bleak. “They have locked the door to the Towers.”
Chant sagged in his chair and slowly traced his finger along the carvings of gulls embellished into the table.
“What does it mean?” Carter asked.
“Everything! Unless I can wind the clocks in the Towers they will run down. All of them!”
“Can’t they be rewound?” Hope asked.
“It is as we told you,” Chant said softly, “though you scarcely believed.MoreLess
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