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    The Ring of Bastet
    The Ring of Bastet
    The Ring of Bastet
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    The Ring of Bastet

    By Seabury Quinn

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    Jules de Grandin's talk of cats and mice seemed utterly irrelevant.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781682997314
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      The Ring of Bastet - Seabury Quinn

      The Ring of Bastet

      By Seabury Quinn

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-731-4

      The Ring of Bastet

      By Seabury Quinn

      Jules de Grandin's talk of cats and mice seemed utterly irrelevant.

      It had snowed earlier, then rained until the snow had melted into muddy slush; now a shrewish wind came scolding up from the Bay, and the sad black puddles that were the dregs of the storm began to glaze and shine with a thin film of ice beneath the street lamps’ glare. Walking became hazardous, with the outcome of each step in doubt.

      Parbleu, mon ami, Jules de Grandin muttered as he dug his pointed chin two inches deeper into the fur collar of his coat, "I do not like this weather. Nom d’un poisson!" his feet slipped on the icy pavement and he caromed into me. Let us seek the shelter. I do not wish to nurse a broken arm; also I am villainously hungry.

      I nodded agreement. I’d treated half a dozen fractures due to falls on ice-glazed streets that winter, and had no wish to spend the next six weeks or so encased in splints and bandages. Here’s the Squire Grill. They have good steaks, if you’d care to try—

      "Morbleu, I would attack a dead raw horse without seasoning! he interjected. My friend, it is that I am hungry like a lady-wolf with sixteen pups."

      The Squire Grill was warm and cozy. Windsor chairs of

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