The Satanist
“Wardeel’s had lulled Mary into a false sense of security; so suddenly to come upon him there was a most unpleasant shock. Her heart began to hammer wildly. Concealing her agitation as well as she could, she returned his ‘Good evening.’ He had come to his feet and, fixing her with his round brown eyes, through the thick-lensed spectacles, he asked: ‘Why haf you not come to Mrs. Wardeel’s on Tuesday?’ In a voice that sounded firmer than she had expected, she replied: ‘I couldn’t. I ate something for lunch that day that upset me. It made me quite ill, and by the evening I was running a temperature.’ To her relief he did not appear to have detected that she was lying. Instead, he smiled his toothy smile and said: ‘To hear that I am sorry. But I see you haf quite recovered. That ees good, very good; because I haf pleasant news for you. Soon now you are given the test weech ees the second stage towards your initiation.’ Mary strove to control her rising panic. Barney might be a rotten littl...e twister, but he had convinced her that to have anything further to do with Ratnadatta would be asking for real trouble.MoreLess
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