Scent of Magic by Andre Norton

Author:Andre Norton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media

“Yur lady, she won’t get no more cold wind through this.” The older of the two men slapped another dollop over the wood. “Takes a lotta doin’, it does, to keep up this here old pile of stones. Watch what yur a-doin’, lump, the young wench don’t want none o’ that stuff spottin’ her skirts, now do you, missy?”

Willadene had carefully avoided the somewhat wide swing of the laborer’s assistant. He had been distracted, she saw, by their own entrance and flushed a dull red when Willadene looked in his direction, leaning quickly over the pot for another load on his trowel.

Julta sniffed. “What a muck you be makin’ here, Jonas. Will take us half a seven night to be clearin’ it. Mistress"—she spoke directly to Willadene—"now you just set that there bag of yourn in this wardrobe. Ain’t no clumsy-footed man a goin’ to kick it over when in there.”

Willadene obeyed instructions. Certainly in this hubbub there could be no unpacking of her wares at present. Then—she took time to straighten from putting her bag into the dark cupboard Julta had indicated.

Evil! At first she thought that trace came from the interior of the wardrobe. But no, the source was somewhere behind her. She turned to shut the door on her possessions and used that action to give a quick glance about the room.

The room—no, it came from— She made herself look inquiringly at Julta as if waiting further instructions. But she was sure. Just as the evil had touched and clung to Figis from the inn so did it lie here under the sweat and body odor of the red-faced boy. Yet there was nothing about him to suggest the same sly waywardness Figis had always shown.

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