A Veiled Antiquity (Torie O'Shea Mysteries) (22 page)

“Nope.”

Just then Sylvia stuck her head out the door. “Victory! Get in here right now. You have tourists waiting!” She looked to Sheriff Brooke and snarled, “And, you, look at the display you’re making of yourself. Pretending to be handicapped. You should be ashamed. And, Rudy, you look positively like a pig!”

I laughed heartily.

“And, Eleanore,” she went on, “what are you staring at? What are you doing here? If you’re not going to work, then go and sit in your own house and loaf. Don’t instill discord in the troops!”

Eleanore was flustered. “Well, I never!”

Things were back to normal in New Kassel, Missouri. I wasn’t sure if that was good or bad.

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Family Skeletons

A VEILED ANTIQUITY
. Copyright © 1998 by Lauretta Allen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

MacPherson, Rett.

A veiled antiquity : a novel / by Rett MacPherson. — 1st ed.

      p. cm.

   ISBN 0-312-29249-X

   I. Title.

 PS3563.A3257V45 1988

 813'.54—dc21

98-6929

CIP

First Edition: June 1998

eISBN 9781466854093

First eBook edition: August 2013