Vincent van Gogh The Sower paintingVincent van Gogh The Night Cafe paintingVincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace at Night painting
two or even three ordinary people had set out to search the kitchen for him, Fric’s chances of eluding them would have been good. Mrs. McBee was in no way ordinary.Holding his breath, he thought that he could hear her sniffing the air. Fee-fie-fo- to discover that Mrs. McBee was fallible, Fric breathed again.After a while, he crept to the hall door, which he cracked open. He stood listening.When he heard the distant hum of the service elevator, he knew that Mrs. McBee and Mr. McBee were descending to the lower garage. Soon they would be off to Santa Barbara.fum.He was glad that he had not turned on the kitchen lights, though she was certain to smell the fresh water that remained in the central sink.Footsteps.Fric almost bolted to his feet, almost announced his presence, which seemed a wiser course of action than waiting here to be found lurking like a sleazeball criminal, stripped to the waist and clearly up to no good.Then he realized the footsteps were moving away from him.He heard the butler’s-pantry door swing shut.[340] The footsteps faded into silence.Stunned and strangely dismayed
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