The Fire at Blackwood Manor
I. The Beaumont house was already a ruin when Ezekiel Beaumont brought the baby home. It had been a ruin for twenty years — since the year after the war, when cotton ceased to be king and the Beaumont fortune began its slow, inevitable decline, like a man walking into a swamp and not realizing until the water was at his waist that he could not get out. By 1932, Blackwood Manor had three heated...
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