The premise, as it reaches you
Dear Keeper,
You will not remember your great-uncle. He saw to that. He has left you the cottage at Brineholme Point, the boathouse, the dock, and the light, upon one condition set down in his own hand: that you live there and keep the Watches, every night from the first of November until the spring relief boat, without one missed.
The light was decommissioned in 1998. You will find it burning.
The cottage is provisioned and the oil is good. The logbook on the desk has already been filled in for tonight. I am told the handwriting is yours.
The boat leaves the quay at four. It will not wait.
Yours faithfully,
T. Harrow, Solicitor




