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Cabot Geheim took a room at the boarding house in the broken town of Trostlos the day after the reading of his grandfather's will. A bored, stumpy woman showed him his room, but Cabot was too excited to even notice there was no private bath. Not that he would have complained; his stay was to be as temporary as possible. The Boarder's Haven merely provided convenient access to his inheritance: Geheim Manor.