I moved closer to the manor and avoided the kennels. I peeked in windows and waited until the lights went out. The back door was unlocked and it was e...sy for me to slip in. I began to search through the house.I took the stack of gold coins on the mage lord’s desk in the study and those in a small chest. I also took all the fancy small gem covered statues lining a shelf. Upstairs I began to silently check the rooms until I found one that was locked from the outside. I looked at it before pulling. It was big andit was two-thirds empty."Nancy came running down the stairs, her coat, purse and a small bag inher hand. "I'm out of here," she said as she pushed past them. Shestopped at the door and turned to shout, "Happy Fucking Thanksgiving!"before she slammed the door.Marilyn ran to the door and struggled with it for a moment beforeopening it just in time to see her own car speeding out of the drivewayand down the street.She came back in and ran to the phone."Mom, don't call the police,". When the ring was brand new I lovingly fondled it, but soon I began spinning it around my finger when anxious or bored. Don't read anything into that and psychoanalyze me. I love my fiancée and want to spend the rest of my life with him. Wow, just think, I'll only be twenty-nine after 10 wonderful years with him. Holy shit! If I live to be 90 that means almost 70 years! With the same guy! But after what happened in the bookstore ... oh yeah, I was telling you about that.I had a college paper to. ”I fixed her with a stern gaze. “Clark is dying of the pox, and it is highly likely you too are infected. You cannot be allowed go about spreading the disease, and will have to find other employment to fill your belly.”Her eyes blazed with anger. “I ain’t got the pox. I never allowed Cornelius in my madge, or even my bed...”“But when I was first here he ordered you to your bed, and said he would soon join you,” I said, perplexed by her fury and denial.“Cornelius would never have got his pego.