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Uncle Silas Redux
Uncle Silas Redux
Uncle Silas Redux
Silas Ruthyn
Uncle Silas Ruthyns Alias when he turns back his body clock. Maus Roomate.
Appearing Younger, Joey as an alter ego is much more shy, quiet and placid than his
eccentric counterpart. Heavily religious and studious. However he still retains his
expertise on the occult and paranormal. He constantly Fights with his inner instincts
and his past life.
Mme de la Rougierre
From New Orleans, Rougierre is flamboyant but sassy and savage. She likes wearing
bright clothing but she also takes her job very seriously. Rougierre tries to stop
Mauds efforts to find the Truth and Joeys real identity. Rougierre too loves Silas for
what he did for her by supporting her when she was suffering from depression. She is
also clairvoyant, who can read peoples mind and sense people from a mile away.
She has a love-hate relationship with Mau, who has dubbed her as the evil queen of
Bartram-Haugh.
A Dramatic Man who talks in a Shakespearian tongue. His attire is mostly Victorian
and his mannerisms are old but strange even for the Victorian era its self. He is
known to watch other people and take notes of their personal lives, akin to stalking.
He is revealed to be an alien that has been sent to take note of supernatural
creatures from Earth in fears that they may threaten the rest of the galaxy. He has a
long life span with a slow aging process, this has given him the ability to have many
adventures and encounters on Earth even writing about them. One of them
includingCarmilla
Austin Ruthyn
Cairo Corvae
Jack Charke
Dr. Bryerly
Dr. Bryerly, Austin Ruthyns doctor and friend. He is one of the trustees of Mauds
estate. Dr. Bryerly was a born with a bizarre but severe memory disorder, as a boy
born into a wealthy medical family; his parents were disappointed but anxious with
him. What didnt help was the electroshock therapy, which only made it worse. The
only way he can remember things is by smelling things, he carries around incense
sticks, cologne and anything that gives off a dominating smell, the smell familiarises
with him and helps him to remember. To help with his medical career, Silas gave him
the power of a long sustainable body and the power of injury and disease transfer.
Lady Monica Knollys, a cousin of Austin Ruthyn, who tries to warn him and Maud
against Mme de la Rougierre.
Lord Ilbury
Lord Ilbury, also known as Mr. Carysbrook. He is one of the trustees of Mauds estate
and marries Mau. They are the head of the Batram-Haugh Acapella Group and the
heir to a great fortune. Ilbury is secretly an Esper, a psychic that can use their mental
energy and use it for physical effects. Ilbury and Mau slowly gain a strong
relationship, Ilbury wants to protect Mau but they know that they really need Mau for
help aswell.
Milly Ruthyn
Milly Ruthyn, Mauds cousin. She is a loud, good-humored girl who becomes Mauds
friend. She grows up to marry a minister. She considers Maud to be one of her best
friends.
Dudley Ruthyn
Dudley Ruthyn, Mauds cousin, a coarse, cruel man. He courts Maud but fails to win
her. When he tries to murder Maud, he kills Mme de la Rougierre by mistake. After
the murder, he disappears. His attempts to court Maud end following his marriage to
a lower-class woman named Sarah Mangles.
Mary Quince
Meg Hawkes
Tom Brice
Tom Brice, a servant who loves Meg Hawkes and saves Maud from her uncle and
cousin.
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Father Purcell
Maud, Mary, Milly and Joey start to uncover the mystery of his
Uncles death and his murder accusation.
Maud meets Tom Brice, a small Cornish boy who looks 11 but
is really 19. He is currently trying to find his pet white ferret.
However he is punched off by Dickon Hawkman Hawkes, a
slow but strong man.
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Maud Ruthyn spends a lonely childhood in the great old house at
Knowl. Her mother dies when she is very young, and her father,
Austin Ruthyn, becomes a recluse who seldom leaves the grounds of
his estate. Disappointed in Parliament many years earlier, he retires
from public life to devote himself to scientific and literary studies.
These lead him to Swedenborgianism, a doctrine suited to his
eccentric and moral tastes. Maud knows him as a kindly but solitary
and taciturn man.
For this reason, she never questions him about her uncle Silas, her
fathers younger brother, who lives at Bartram-Haugh, a Derbyshire
estate owned by Austin. His portrait as a handsome young man
hangs in the oak room at Knowl, but from vague hints and whispers
of the servants, she knows that there is a mystery surrounding this
relative whom she never met, and that the scandal clouds her fathers
life as well.
One of the few visitors at Knowl is Dr. Bryerly, a tall, ungainly man
who always dresses in black and wears an untidy scratch wig. Like
Mauds father, he is a Swedenborgian. The girl is greatly in awe of
him, but she knows that he has her fathers confidence. One day,
Austin shows her the key to a locked cabinet in his study. He is soon
to go on a journey, he says, and after his departure she is to give the
key to Dr. Bryerly.
Maud is a little past seventeen years old when her father employs a
new governess, Madame de la Rougierre, a tall, masculine-looking
woman with sly, smirking manners. Maud dislikes her from the start.
On every possible occasion, the governess questions her charge
about Austins will and business affairs; sometimes Maud thinks the
woman is deliberately spying on the household. One day, Madame de
la Rougierre and her pupil walk to a ruined abbey near Knowl, where
a strange young man accosts Maud. The girl is frightened by his
coarse appearance and offensive manner, but Madame de la
Rougierre ignores the incident.
Maud forgets the whole affair in her excitement over the arrival of
Lady Monica Knollys, her fathers cousin from Derbyshire and a brisk,
sensible noblewoman. During the visit, Madame de la Rougierre
pretends to be ill, and it turns out that she and Lady Monica knew
each other in the past. When Lady Monica tells Austin that the
governess is not a suitable companion for his daughter, he accuses
her of prejudice, and they have a terrible argument, as a result of
which Lady Monica leaves Knowl abruptly. Before leaving, she warns
Maud against Madame de la Rougierre and cautions her always to be
on guard against her. Lady Monica also tells Maud that at one time
her uncle Silas, whom she clearly does not like, was suspected of
murder, but that nothing was charged. Later, Silas becomes
interested in religion.
When Maud and her cousin go for a walk the next morning, they find
the gate leading into Bartram Close locked and guarded by Meg
Hawkes, the millers rough-tongued daughter, who refuses to let them
pass. The girls enter the park by a seldom-traveled path that Milly
knows, and there they meet a pleasant young gentleman who
introduces himself as Mr. Carysbrook, a tenant at the nearby Grange.
Mauds only companion is Milly, and she sees very little of her uncle,
who is addicted to laudanum and passes many of his days in a coma.
Sometimes, the girls are summoned to sit in his room while he lies
quietly in bed. One day, Dr. Bryerly appears unexpectedly to transact
some business with Silas. When the doctor questions her, Maud
replies that she is happy at Bartram-Haugh. Dr. Bryerly gives her his
address in London and tells her to communicate with him if the need
should ever arise.
Silas confesses to his ward that he faces final and complete ruin. To
elude his creditors, he will be forced to send Maud to join Milly in
France; he himself will travel by another route to join them there.
Maud grows apprehensive, however, when she learns that her
companion on the journey is to be Madame de la Rougierre, her
former governess. Confined like a prisoner, she tries to communicate
her plight to Lady Monica, but the servant she bribes to carry her
letter returns the message to his master. With reproaches for her
ingratitude and accusations against him, Silas tells her that she is to
leave for France immediately with Madame de la Rougierre; Mary
Quince, the maid, will follow with him in a few days.
She is so shaken by her experience that Lady Monica hurries her off
to France at once, and two years pass before she learns what
happened after her flight. Silas killed himself with an overdose of
opium; Dudley disappeared; and Madame de la Rougierres body
was found buried in the courtyard, its whereabouts disclosed by
Megs old father. Subsequent investigation revealed that Mauds room
was the chamber in which Charke was found dead; the peculiar
construction of the window frame explained how his murderer was
able to enter a room locked from the inside.