Better to Eat You
“He felt, he said, that someone must check closely on what the police were thinking and doing. He felt he would like to be excused. He would like to run down into the village where he would glean what he could. He was pretending, of course, that he could not imagine Malvina would have told the old man anything.
Neither Malvina nor the old man attempted to dissuade him. Grandfather sat by the dying fire, his face thoughtful, his head nodding, his breath sighing from time to time.
Malvina rose, as... if released, and walked with David to the garden door. She stepped outside as he did.
David stood with his ears sharpened. Within the curl of the low house, air in the garden did not stir. The enclosure was breathless and still. At the gate end nothing could be seen. The man on guard was below the garden level. Lights to the right shone in the kitchen. Moon and Mrs. Monteeth could be seen moving in there. Light shone in the Monteeth’s bedroom, tail of the house on that eastern end. Gust was there.MoreLess
Neither Malvina nor the old man attempted to dissuade him. Grandfather sat by the dying fire, his face thoughtful, his head nodding, his breath sighing from time to time.
Malvina rose, as... if released, and walked with David to the garden door. She stepped outside as he did.
David stood with his ears sharpened. Within the curl of the low house, air in the garden did not stir. The enclosure was breathless and still. At the gate end nothing could be seen. The man on guard was below the garden level. Lights to the right shone in the kitchen. Moon and Mrs. Monteeth could be seen moving in there. Light shone in the Monteeth’s bedroom, tail of the house on that eastern end. Gust was there.MoreLess
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