Publisher's Synopsis
WHAT a surprising tale of revenge! Hugh Austin, a wayfarer is traveling through the mist in Pennsylvania at about 7:45-ish when he comes upon a house with its doors and windows open and lights pouring out from it. A man leaving beckons him in saying dinner will be held at 9:00. What happens next warns him that things aren't as they should be and he's become an unintended guest to the reading of a hated rich man's will. Only his relatives who arrive before two short strokes of eight o'clock will have a part in the proceedings and in the division of his possessions. When the clock strikes the appointed time the door is shut and bolted, leaving everyone not already over the threshold out. Then begins the strangest of will readings and the tale of revenge is carefully put into action.
