light-housekeeper

Updated: May 20, 2025

For the last of many days the light-housekeeper had watched from his aerie for the coming of the fleet and had not been disappointed. His horse and buggy stood by the tower doorstep, and into it he leaped, whipping up the horse with the same motion. Then down the road he had flown like Paul Revere rousing the villagers, and followed by an excited, half-hysterical procession of women and children.

Frank Williams - The Harbor of Doubt