The Grey Monk
by T. W. Speight
By The Author Of “The Mysteries Of Heron Dyke.”
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON,
8, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, LONDON, W.
1894
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CHAPTER I.
ALEC’S SENTENCE
It was a wild and stormy October night. The big moon-faced clock in the entrance-hall, in its slow and solemn fashion, as of a horologe that felt the burden of its years, had just announced the hour of eleven.
In his study alone, busy among his coins and curios, sat Sir Gilbert Clare of Withington Chase, Hertfordshire, and Chase Ridings, Yorkshire, a handsome, well-preserved man, in years somewhere between fifty and sixty. He had a tall, thin, upright figure, strongly marked features of an aquiline type, a snow-white moustache, and an expression at once proud and imperious.