Short Fiction · Character
Frank Sydall
An orphaned boy raised in Dr. Ashton's household, he becomes the willing companion of the strange young Viscount Saul and the first to feel the house change around him.
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Also known as Francis, Mr. Arthur Francis, old Francis, Frank, This Frank
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Frank is eleven or twelve, adopted into a wealthy childless clergyman's family and accustomed to being useful and overlooked. When Lord Saul arrives from Ireland, Frank teaches him games and shadows him through the…
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