The Pale Companion
“I was never so glad in my life to turn my back on anywhere. The Chamberlain’s Company had arrived to celebrate a marriage and to contribute our mite towards the festivities by staging WS’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But, instead of the harmony of Hymen, we had attended a triple feast of death. The demise of Robin the woodman was the harbinger for the killing of Lord Elcombe and the subsequent death, whether by accident or suicide, of his sad simpleton of a son.
But the fates were not to be sati...sfied with this catalogue of misery. A poor drowned soul lay in a downstairs room of the great house, lifeless testimony to the ruthlessness of his father all those years before and an agonizing reproach to the living mother now. The older son of the family, now revealed to be the middle child, was still imprisoned for that same father’s murder even if Justice Fielding seemed convinced that the clutch of affidavits he carried in his saddle-pouch would secure the young man’s release. There was yet more: a marriage had been disarranged, and two families violently disappointed in their hopes and ambitions.MoreLess
But the fates were not to be sati...sfied with this catalogue of misery. A poor drowned soul lay in a downstairs room of the great house, lifeless testimony to the ruthlessness of his father all those years before and an agonizing reproach to the living mother now. The older son of the family, now revealed to be the middle child, was still imprisoned for that same father’s murder even if Justice Fielding seemed convinced that the clutch of affidavits he carried in his saddle-pouch would secure the young man’s release. There was yet more: a marriage had been disarranged, and two families violently disappointed in their hopes and ambitions.MoreLess
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