MALCOLM stood with his back to the castle, pacing<br >uneasily and keeping an eye on the road where it curved<br >up from the village~f Knaresborough.<br > The castle rose :;up behind him, bleak and broken, a<br >snaggled-toothed retie etched against the leaden sky of a<br >wet April dawn. Its grim dungeons were padlocked now<br >behind heavy wooden doors, its history reduced to a line<br >or two in the British tourist guides. The fortress stood<br > silent, harmless, a brooding shadow of terror dimly<br >remembered across the boundaries of time. But to Mal-<br > colm, standing there alone in the fading darkness, with<br > mist rising wet and cold ~against his face, the ghosts of<br > Knaresborough Castle were strangely alive. Not tliat he<br > was seeing things---there were no ghostly images mount-<br >hag the battlements, no mut<br >chains in his mind s eye, noth<br >just a feeling he had, a sense<br >ken walls and empty, staring<br >peering at him out of the past.<br > ~And so he turned to face<br > sptrlts<br >ng as gr<br >)f myste<br >window,,<br >the present, keeping an eye<br ><br >
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