Bride of the Rat God
“Those who give advice frequently get into trouble for it...
“IT IS THE Rat-God.”
Shang Ko looked from Norah’s face to Alec’s and then to Christine’s, where she sat a little distance from him in the old assay office’s single straight-backed wooden chair, surrounded by her three dogs. The assay office was the only brick building still standing in Red Bluff, and Mikos Hraldy had moved his clothes and personal effects out of it and into the tent Alec shared with Doc to give the company a combined i...nterview room and jail. Through the stout door Norah could dimly hear the director arguing with Ned the greater about the advisability of summoning the San Bernardino county sheriff, as opposed to waiting until Mr. Brown could be notified.
The old Chinese leaned forward on the lower bunk where he sat, broken hands clenched on his knobby knees. His eyes were deadly earnest. “Da Shu Ken, the Great Rat of the North, the Kara-Kudai. Bringer of plague, misfortune, and death. It is he who pursues you, who has been pursuing you since the full moon of autumn, the season which is his.MoreLess
“IT IS THE Rat-God.”
Shang Ko looked from Norah’s face to Alec’s and then to Christine’s, where she sat a little distance from him in the old assay office’s single straight-backed wooden chair, surrounded by her three dogs. The assay office was the only brick building still standing in Red Bluff, and Mikos Hraldy had moved his clothes and personal effects out of it and into the tent Alec shared with Doc to give the company a combined i...nterview room and jail. Through the stout door Norah could dimly hear the director arguing with Ned the greater about the advisability of summoning the San Bernardino county sheriff, as opposed to waiting until Mr. Brown could be notified.
The old Chinese leaned forward on the lower bunk where he sat, broken hands clenched on his knobby knees. His eyes were deadly earnest. “Da Shu Ken, the Great Rat of the North, the Kara-Kudai. Bringer of plague, misfortune, and death. It is he who pursues you, who has been pursuing you since the full moon of autumn, the season which is his.MoreLess
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