title: Wilde's Fire (Darkness Falls, Book One)
author:  Krystal Wade 
description: <b>Krystal Wade</b> can be found in the sluglines outside Washington D.C. every morning, Monday through Friday. With coffee in hand, iPod plugged in, and strangers - who sometimes snore, smell, or have incredibly bad gas - sitting next to her, she zones out and thinks of fantastical worlds for you and me to read.<br /><br /> How else can she cope with a fifty mile commute?<br /><br /> Good thing she has her husband and three kids to go home to. They keep her sane.
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  # The Noble Lord
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Percival Wilde
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
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  Produced by William Coon
  
  
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  **THE NOBLE LORD A Comedy In One Act**
  
  
  **By PERCIVAL WILDE**
  
  
  **The Noble Lord**
  
  
  **CHARACTERS**
  
  
  **HE**.
  
  
  **SHE**.
  
  
  **PETERS**.
  
  
  **THE NOBLE LORD**
  
  
  **_A secluded spot in the Maine woods in the neighborhood of a
  
  
  summer hotel_**. It is the middle of July. The trees are covered
  
  
  with foliage, a hot sun casts dancing shadows upon the mossy ground,
  
  
  and the air is full of the twittering of birds and the rustle of leaves. A
  winding path crosses from one side to the other, and near the center
  
  
  is a little clearing: the stump of a felled tree, with the
  
  
  lichen-covered trunk itself near it, and a patch of grassy turf. The
  
  
  eye cannot penetrate far through the riotously growing underbrush, but
  
  
  as one looks upwards, to the left, a thinning of foliage, allowing a
  
  
  gli