title: Scripting the Truth
author:  T.A. Henry 
description: Transplanted from the monochromatic weather of the Silicon Valley with her hubby and kiddo, T.A. Henry now thrives in the rain and thunder of the Pacific Northwest. While a degree in History did not provide a lucrative career, it did teach this author how to research with the best of them. She reads non-fiction constantly and likes to use everything she absorbs as fodder for another novel.
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  # The Liar
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
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  The train was half an hour late and the drive from the
  
  
  station longer than he had supposed, so that when he reached the house
  
  
  its inmates had dispersed to dress for dinner and he was conducted
  
  
  straight to his room. The curtains were drawn in this asylum, the
  
  
  candles were lighted, the fire was bright, and when the servant had
  
  
  quickly put out his clothes the comfortable little place became
  
  
  suggestive — seemed to promise a pleasant house, a various party,
  
  
  talks, acquaintances, affinities, to say nothing of very good cheer.
  
  
  He was too occupied with his profession to pay many country visits,
  
  
  but he had heard people who had more time for them speak of
  
  
  establishments where 'they do you very well'. He foresaw that the
  
  
  proprietors of Stayes would do him very well. In his bedroom at a
  
  