Wylder's Hand Chapter 57 - Concerning A New Danger Which Threatened Captain Stanley Lake

In which Captain Stanley Lake, grappling with a vexing letter from his sister Rachel and unexpected defiance from his wife Dorcas, finds his schemes for control confounded and his uneasy dominion increasingly precarious. Amid the shadowy woods and by the ill-omened tarn, he encounters the eerie and unsettling presence of Uncle Lorne, whose grim jests and macabre chatter deepen the captain’s sense of brooding menace and impending reckoning.