Scryer's Gulch episode 30 is up

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Over at the Hopewell, Emmy was keeping herself warm out of doors back behind the hotel by means of exercise, swinging a cane carpet beater against Julian Hopewell's parlor rug. Her long dust-brown hair hung in untidy braids where they'd fallen from atop her head--she never could get the hang of pins--and they flopped against her thin back as she waled on the carpet.

She stopped to brush sweat from her brow and glanced down the alleyway, just in time to see that Duniway woman slip between two buildings further down. What was she skulking around for? Emmy beat the carpet slower so as to keep a better lookout, tiny poofs of dust barely rising from the pile.

Sure enough, five minutes later here came John.

Emmy beat at the carpet so hard the crumbs and dust flew; she kept at it until the cane beater broke clean in two. She'd show John what kind of woman that Annabelle was.


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Published on September 29, 2010 10:54
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