Chapter 24

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‌⁠Lord Reckage had been carried through the hall of Almouth House, but not up the famous staircase of which he was so proud. He looked at it as they bore him to the library, and although he was still in a kind of stupor, the terrified servants could read in his eyes the certain knowledge that he would never behold the marble walls or the portraits of his ancestors again.

"Are you in pain, my lord? is