The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

Author:Anne Rice
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: horror, General, C429, Extratorrents, Kat, Fiction
ISBN: 9780345375292
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 1990-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In the winter of 1939, our investigators located Antha in a very simple way. Elaine Barrett, our witchcraft scholar, in a routine meeting with Evan Neville suggested that Antha must have financed her escape with the famous Mayfair jewels and gold coins. Why not try the shops in New York where such items could be sold for quick money? Antha was located within the month.

Indeed, she had been selling rare and exquisite gold coins steadily to support herself since her arrival in 1938 Every coin dealer in New York knew her — the beautiful young woman with the fine manners and the cheerful smile who always brought in the rarest of merchandise, taken from a family collection in Virginia, she said.

‘At first I thought her stuff was stolen,’ said one com dealer. ‘I mean these were three of the finest French coins I’ve ever seen. I gave her a fraction of what they were worth and just waited. But absolutely nothing happened When I made the sale, I saved her a percentage. And when she brought me some marvelous Roman coins, I paid her what they were worth. Now she’s a regular. I’d rather deal with her than some of the other people who come in here, I’ll tell you that much.’

It was a simple thing to follow Antha from one of these shops to a large apartment on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village where she had been living with Sean Lacy, a handsome young Irish-American painter who showed considerable promise and had already exhibited with some critical approval several pieces of his work. Antha herself had become a writer Everyone in the building and on the block knew the young couple. Our investigators collected reams of information almost overnight.

Antha was the sole support of Sean Lacy, friends said openly. She bought him anything he wanted, and he treated her like a queen. ‘He calls her his Southern Belle, actually, does everything for her. But then why shouldn’t he?’ The apartment was ’a wonderful place,’ full of bookshelves to the ceiling, and big old comfortable overstuffed chairs

‘Sean has never painted so well. He’s done three portraits of her, all of them very interesting. And you can hear Antha’s typewriter going constantly. She sold one story, I heard, to some little literary magazine in Ohio. They threw a party over that one. She was so happy She really is a little on the naive side But she’s a swell kid.’

‘She’d be a good writer if she’d write about what she knows,’ said one young woman in a bar who claimed to have once been Sean’s lover. ‘But she writes these morbid fantasies about an old violet-colored house in New Orleans and a ghost who lives there - all very high-pitched, and hardly what will sell. She really ought to get away from all that rot and write about her experiences here in New York.’

Neighbors were fond of the young couple. ‘She can’t cook or do anything practical,’ reported a female painter who lived above them, ’but then why should she? She pays all the bills as it is.

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