d happened.

    doors man and not domesticated. Nevert time o do for one more cup of tea  being first e t  cannot be used straiger for cooked. y plates and cups piled up,  to and do t o see  ton boots and  erra-cotta pots and tender plants. And it came to tention t tes antly of tairs e for Master Curn an empty plate to tchen? No.

    upstairs. Outside tes and cups ouc for t buzzed over it, and t smell.  noticing t till untoucoted up tes and cups and fro is when he knew.

    knock at t ? o go to imber strong enougo use as a battering ram. t against tal ore ao the door.

    tered door fell open, s errible stenc, knocking Emmeline and teps. Even Jo o urned a ser. “Stay back,” ered the room. A few paces behind, I followed him.

    e stepped gingerly tting food on tirring clouds of flies up into ty plates covered elpiece, on cable. ttering ram ill iously, and a startled rat came scurrying out over our feet. It ted vomit encrusted table by the Missus’s old darning needle.

    ty. Just crumpled, filts stained her human vileness.

    e did not speak. e tried not to breaty, c . to steel o open to t. Before it snagged in my nostrils, my skin seemed to smell it, and a cold s bloomed all over my body. toilet  quite contain t o cover. But t ook a sep back and  t, taken teps back myself. In tink of  droppings and t into tairs and out of doors.

    I  looked fres.

    ‘All rigted my back  ill trembling.

    t ions all over  could ell her?

    e , C. But Char