Theodore Goodridge Roberts

“ At any event it began to look as if my visit to Moosemeadows might indeed provide some of the excitement I craved. So I listened with more interest than this chance acquaintance was aware of to his rambling talk. Also, about this time, strange as it seemed, I began to like the fellow.
"There's plenty of things you'd call bad that I wouldn't," he went on. "I am tough, but Henry Deblore was a devil, and everyone round here knew it. And he was slick as he was bad." ”

“ James Partridge, a one-time attorney-general of the Province, as you know. The attorney-general's mother was a daughter of Major Goodwin Ludlaw. The major's mother was a Deblore. But of course you are familiar with all this. Having introduced myself as a relative, I now hasten to invite you to Moosemeadows Park. I dwell alone on my ancestral acres, beneath a more or less weather-proof ancestral roof. The years are gathering on my head like a snowdrift and loneliness frequently assaults my heart. ”

“ I've heared an uncle of mine, a man who wasn't what ye'd call nervous nor particular, tell how he'd had his sights lined fair on Henry Deblore many's the time, all unbeknownst to Henry an' nobody lookin', an' was scart to press the trigger. ”