Wylder's Hand Chapter 44 - In Which Old Tamar Lifts Up Her Voice In Prophecy

In which Captain Stanley Lake encounters the old and weathered Tamar in the sombre dusk of Redman's Dell, where she presses him to heed a weighty matter that has long troubled her conscience. Despite her earnest entreaties and the secretive stillness of the place, he rebuffs her warnings with a mixture of impatience and concealed dread, retreating into the shadows with a storm of inward agitation.