Paul Westmoreland
Tales from Two Centuries
When Captain George Ackworth travels on a stagecoach in North Yorkshire, he and his fellow passengers are attacked by a highwayman and a violent gang who murder the driver and the guard on the coach, before kidnapping two sisters from an aristocratic family leaving the survivors to speculate on why Captain Midnight should have taken them. The appearance of this so-called ‘captain’ is made more forbidding by a black hat, cloak and mask and a “milk-white horse whose appearance had a ghostly presence in the shadows.” It is on this mount that the ...
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