A Break in the Clouds

Miss Natty, upon taking a short-cut through the woods, discovered a distressed
peddler holding an infant. Undernourished children hovered near their sickly
mother lying prone on the grass, a peddler's blue wagon nearby.

The father begged Natty to hold the infant as he tended his wife.

Sensing a dire need, she gathered the infant and ran to her cottage for milk and
bread returning to discover the wagon, and its occupants gone.

Sir Finbarr O'Bannon is not rebuilding Ashcourt Manor in his mother's m...