On the second Tuesday of March, Edward Ashworth was fitting a new deadbolt to the back door of the King's Arms public house when a boy arrived on a bicycle with a telegram. The boy had the Pemberton crest on his cap, which was unusual, because the Pembertons did not employ boys with bicycles. Edward tipped his glasses down his nose and read the message twice. The Lantern House had been broken...
On the night of the first snowfall, when the guard at the north gate of Malverne raised his lantern and saw a shape standing where the cart road gave out into the open field, halfway between the last torch and the dark line of the forest, he knew at once that the faded guest had come again, and he knew too, with the particular dread that cold weather always brought to the watch, that there was...
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