
On a September evening in 1728, Bailie Andrew Anderson finished a long supper grace while an impatient visitor knocked below three times. The door may belong to the household, but whoever pounds it believes delay has cancelled caution. You step into this one-chapter preview with Bailie Andrew Anderson at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The sleeping boy held every adult plan inside the next dawn. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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