SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: The Designer's Tale: "The Palatine Lion," Continued

From the unpublished novel "The Roycroft Tales" (c) 2001 by Ward Courier under the pen name Mason Winfield

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The Inn closed just after New Year's. The owners said they would be back for St. Patrick's Day, a point in the year from which business would be steady enough to keep the Inn rolling. They kept a good face on, but it would be years before the Inn reopened.

Allan never ...