Mad House by Ellis Knox

Author:Ellis Knox [Knox, Ellis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-08-05T22:00:00+00:00

I spent long hours in the empty courtyard outside the pyramid while John Golly reconnoitered the island. I have to confess my mind was already working on how I would get back inside the Library to steal something. Getting in was not the problem. Getting out again was. Prospects were dim. I was confident I could fool Fat Bernat—I could steal the mustache from under his nose—but the House was another matter entirely. It was likely to notice.

It was near sunset on the first day that John Golly found me there, still thinking.

“The House has a gift for you,” he said.

“Land?”

“Not yet. Something useful, though. You are owed payment. We cannot give you a royal pardon, but this should give you enough money to buy protection.”

He reached into a pouch and opened his big hand. In it lay a ruby as large as a goose egg. It glowed in the sunlight like a heart.

“There is more to it than size and beauty,” he said, as I took it. The stone was strangely light.

“The House says to show it to the dwarves. They will know how to value it.”

I stared at the stone. Anything of value to the dwarves was going to be valuable indeed.

“Thank you,” I said. “Er, thank the House.”

“You are owed payment,” he said, and he would say no more about it.

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