Sir Egerton Brydges, 1928 "It was not some smartass kid," Joan insisted. "The driver was a woman." "How do you know?" Peggy demanded. "You didn't see any more than I did. I didn't turn until I heard Bill shout, and by that time there was nothing to be seen except bodies flying through the air. ...
Megan did not even know he had gone until late afternoon, when Jane came to the nursery, where Megan was halfheartedly trying to impress the first few letters of the alphabet upon her charge. Though she saw at once by Jane's face that something had happened, she was given no opportunity to ask; L...
"I had just met Ruth, through one of my students—Ruth's niece Sara, who is Kara's older sister. Sara was the first of us to feel the influence that haunted that old house in Georgetown. It was a classic case of possession; the girl who had come to a tragic end in the same house two centuries earl...
But elvin phantoms cursed the dell And sylvan witches all unseen Wielded scepter o'er this queen." The woodcut accompanying this bit of doggerel in a book written some years later does not flatter Miss Betsy. She resembles a witch herself, with her hair in wild disarray and her hands raised in ...
I was genuinely fatigued by the time we stopped each night, so it was not hard for me to accept Clare's continued avoidance of his bride as a sign of his delicate consideration. The journey was tiring and the scenery depressing. The hills were still brown and stark with winter; the animals seemed...
"If you want me to." Andrea had never been so conscious of the twelve years' difference in their ages. After sleeping most of the day, Jim was back to normal, whereas she felt as if she had been put through a wringer. Watching him shovel in quantities of leftover casserole and half of Mrs. Horner...
She and Kay would be most vulnerable to an attack by fire; the rooms on the second floor had wide windows and a relatively easy drop into thick shrubbery below. "That's ingenious," she said. "Rosemary's past, you mean?" "She's the focus," Nick insisted. "Maybe I'm unduly influenced by the politic...
Veronica had dressed herself in saggy green military chic cargo pants and a tight white tank top, otherwise known to punk kids as a ‘wife beater’. Her black bra showing through the thin material. She had wanted to separate herself from the other girls so Veronica outfitted them in matching mini s...
Even the imperturbable Podmore started. Doyle glared wildly around the room, as if he feared that the Bell Spirit had returned to make its comment on the proceedings. A high-backed leather chair stood slightly to one side of the circle in which the friends were sitting. With unnerving abruptness ...
The signal usually was a warning that a full-scale battle was on its way. "Who is he to tell me what to do?""He is the King of All Familiar." H'riar sighed deeply. It was a weary, drawn-out exhalation. This was the fifth time he had had this 'discussion' with his brother's daughter!On occasion, t...