The Chestermarke Instinct

At eight on a bright spring Monday, Wallington Neale longs to escape the bank—and by nine, its manager is missing with the keys.

In sleepy Scarnham, ancient gabled houses crowd the Market-Place, and old buildings conceal passages and hidden stairways. Neale, a restless young clerk, has spent five years repeating the same dull routines; then he arrives to find the bank locked and his guardian, manager John Horbury, nowhere to be found. Horbury went out on Saturday evening without saying where he was going, and even the housekeeper cannot explain his absence. The town’s quiet Monday has acquired an unsettling question: where has the bank manager gone?

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