![]() ![]() He lets her dry herself before his fire, and she flees before morning. One wet night, he is visited in his room in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. There Rupert tries to win the trust of the conservative mountaineer population by using his fortune to buy them modern arms (from a South American country that has unexpectedly found itself at peace) for their fight against Turkish invasion (the story was written shortly before the Balkan Wars). ![]() Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate worth more than one million pounds, on condition that he live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on the Dalmatian coast. The initial sections, leading up to the reading of the uncle's will, told by other characters, suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family, and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound estate suggest the uncle is somehow testing the heir. The book is an epistolary novel, narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters, but mainly Rupert. The Lady of the Shroud is a novel by Bram Stoker, published by William Heinemann in 1909. ![]()
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