Chapter 269: A Well-Meaning Lie!

The moon shone like a silver plate, stars pricked the night. By the roaring river, two tall figures stood straight and still. Pale moonlight poured down, etching their faces in sharp, clean lines. They were Gordon Yale and Madman Duncan. Both stood quietly by the water. The air felt peculiar, but neither broke the stalemate. Madman Duncan watched Gordon in silence. Gordon watched him, too. He took in Duncan's face-young, yet weathered with a trace of old sorrow-and the gray at his temples....