[The Four Pools Mystery by Jean Webster]@TWC D-Link book
The Four Pools Mystery

CHAPTER II
12/14

His color was a muddy yellow, his features were sharp instead of flat, and his hair hung across his forehead almost straight.

But these facts alone did not account for his queerness; the most uncanny thing about him was the color of his eyes.
They had a yellow glint and narrowed in the light.

The creature was bare-footed and wore a faded suit of linsey-woolsey; I wondered at that, for the other servants who had crowded out to see me, were dressed in very decent livery.
Radnor noticed my surprise, and remarked as he led the way up the winding staircase, "Mose isn't much of a beauty, for a fact." I made no reply as the man was close behind, and the feeling that his eyes were boring into the middle of my back was far from pleasant.

But after he had deposited his load on the floor of my room, and, with a sidewise glance which seemed to take in everything without looking directly at anything, had shambled off again, I turned to Rad.
"What's the matter with him ?" I demanded.
Radnor threw back his head and laughed.
"You look as if you'd seen the ha'nt! There's nothing to be afraid of.
He doesn't bite.

The poor fellow's half witted--at least in some respects; in others he's doubly witted." "Who is he ?" I persisted.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books