The Skeleton Room by Kate Ellis

Author:Kate Ellis [ELLIS, KATE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2011-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

I thought little of Mercy Iddacombe and Captain Smithers. I had the care of nigh on five hundred souls in the village of Millicombe itself and I spent a deal of time hunting in those days before the infirmities caused by a fall from my horse prevented it.

Mistress Iddacombe owned a fine house near the hamlet of Chadleigh. She seemed to me to be a most charming woman, and on those occasions she honoured me with an invitation to dine she talked of the ships she had inherited from her late husband, the cleverness of her son, James, the accomplishments of her daughters, Caroline and Mary Anne, and the virtues of the handsome captain of the Jane Marie, Isaiah Smithers.

James said little but the two young ladies were, I admit, pleasing, Caroline being the elder and prettier. Mary Anne, I thought, was a quiet creature, lacking her sister’s conversation.

So it was that I was surprised one wet May evening when Mary Anne Iddacombe called upon me to request that I marry her in secret to Captain Isaiah Smithers.

From An Account of the Dreadful and Wicked Crimes of the Wreckers of Chadleigh by the Reverend Octavius Mount, Vicar of Millicombe

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