For the Term of His Natural Life
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You play a son disowned in one night: your father, Sir Richard Devine, reveals that Lord Bellasis fathered you and orders you gone before the servants can learn why. Your mother, Lady Ellinor, extracts only a promise to write before you cross Hampstead Heath — where you find the dying Bellasis and are seized for his murder. Clearing yourself means naming the family whose secret sent you into the night, so you give the police a name that isn't yours: Rufus Dawes.
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- The Name Given to the PrisonerHampstead Heath, 1827