19: Hunter’s Apology
DAWN WAS JUST BEGINNING when Gees wakened to question if it would be worth while to go out and wring that cockerel’s neck, but decided to refrain, since, with his work in Denlandham done— as nearly as he could tell— the raucous summons from sleep would not be likely to trouble him again. He reached for and lighted a cigarette, and lay waiting for the arrival of Nicholas with early morning tea and hot water: as he waited, he reviewed the events of the past few days.
They had possessed Isabella— one of them had, just as May Norris had been possessed; of that he felt sure. With that, apart from any sustenance they may have gleaned from their shut chamber at Nightmare as long as the body of Robert Hunter remained intact, went half their strength. Yet, while this present
