What happened to the girls who were taken? Certainly they werent all Mr. Lowengrens wives.
Several were. Severalthe less comely onesbecame servants in his house. The rest of us, thirty-five or so, were sold.
Sold! My body chills.
Of course, Mr. Lowengren was just the first administrator of Sacrifice. He died long before the ritual died. His son, Arthur, took over the business, the factory, the ritual, the whole thing. He was as cunning as his father, maybe more so, since some of the hold that Lowengren had over the town was loosening. The factory was less successful and a few new businesses cropped up in the area. But, he refused to lose the money he earned from the sale of the latest sacrifice. It was all business to him. Arthur managed to keep up the scheme until the year I w
