The Zanzibar cat by Russ Joanna 1937-

Author:Russ, Joanna 1937-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Amosbibl
Publisher: New York, Baen book
Published: 1984-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

color drained out of his face, desperate eyes fixed on the east.

"You don't understand," says Emily, inventing. "He isn't dangerous now. If you let him go, he'll run inside and then you can come back any time during the day and finish him off. I'm sick. You—"

The words die in her throat. All around them, from every tree and hedge, from boughs that have sheltered the graveyard for a hundred years, the birds begin their morning noise. A great hallelujah rises; after all, the birds have nothing to worry about. Numb, with legs like sticks, Emily sees sunlight touch the top of the stone mausoleum, sunlight slide down its face, sunlight reach the level of a standing man—

"I adore you," says Martin to her. With the slow bending over of a drowning man, he doubles up, like a man stuck with a knife in a dream; he doubles up, falls—

And Emily screams; what a scream! as if her soul were being haled out through her throat; and she is running down the other side of the little hill to regions as yet untouched by the sun, crying inwardly: I need help! help! help!—She knows where she can get it. Three hundred feet down the hill in a valley, a wooded protected valley sunk below the touch of the rising sun, there she runs through the trees, past the fence that separates the old graveyard from the new, expensive, cast-iron-and-polished granite—

There, just inside the door (for they were rich people and Charlotte's mother's sister lived in Frisco) lies Emily's good friend, her old friend, with her hat and cloak off and her blonde hair falling over the bier to her knees—Charlotte in a

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