Just as he suspected all the Satanists had already been taking drugs before they attended the Service.
He looked through the secret spyhole for only a few seconds before he moved away.
He was sickened at the thought of what would take place.
Now all he could do was to wait until the Colonel joined him.
*
It seemed to Charisa that a very long time elapsed before she heard the key turning in the lock.
She closed her eyes knowing that her arms were lying limply under the bedcover.
She heard several people come into the room and then Madame Dubus said in a thick rather unsteady voice,
“Pick her up carefully, mes braves! We don’t want any accidents.”
She was speaking in French and the man who answered her, Charisa thought, was the Comte.
"No, of course not. We will be very careful wit
