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THE ISLAND CASTLE AT HERCULIS
Life with Sebastian was often trying, yet he grew on
her far more than Gianfrancesco ever had. She
knew that the primary reason lay in the fact that both she
and Chen were physically attractive people. A discreet husband
would leave the dispensation of his bounty, where women are concerned, to his
wife. It was an
excuse, dredged up on the spur of the moment to cover a slip. “I like you very much John. Her mother had died when
she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively,
one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of
her, and so she had made what she could of her father. “Don’t be too sure of that,” she answered enigmatically. He sat alone in his brother’s old car
night after night that summer, staring blankly at the red
sky beyond the abandoned farmhouse where she had
once shown him her secrets. This island was the
one haven he had; he might be forced to remain here for several years—until the
Hand had forgotten him. They went to the gate and stopped there, gabbed with their men, and didn’t even
dismount. ’
‘That has put “only Gerald” very firmly in his place,’ mourned Gerald. "
"Man, in God's name, come with me and tell her this!" urged
Spurlock. “You are very kind to think of it,” she said, “but—don’t you think perhaps—that
I had better not?”
He smiled indulgently. \" Larry
got up from his chair and trudged to the refrigerator,
pouring himself a glass of milk from the never-ending
supply of two percent. ‘In fact, I’ve never met anyone who
goaded me to so much violence.
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