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    Strange Alliance
    Strange Alliance
    Strange Alliance
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    Strange Alliance

    By Charles McNutt and Bryce Walton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013

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      Strange Alliance - Charles McNutt

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Strange Alliance, by Bryce Walton

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Strange Alliance

      Author: Bryce Walton

      Illustrator: Charles McNutt

      Release Date: February 11, 2009 [EBook #28047]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STRANGE ALLIANCE ***

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      Haunted by their dark heritage, a medieval fate awaited them....

      STRANGE

      ALLIANCE

      BY BRYCE WALTON

      Doctor Spechaug stopped running, breathing deeply and easily where he paused in the middle of the narrow winding road. He glanced at his watch. Nine a.m. He was vaguely perplexed because he did not react more emotionally to the blood staining his slender hands.

      It was fresh blood, though just beginning to coagulate; it was dabbled over his brown serge suit, splotching the neatly starched white cuffs of his shirt. His wife always did them up so nicely with the peasant's love for trivial detail.

      He had always hated the silent ignorance of the peasants who surrounded the little college where he taught psychology. He supposed that he had begun to hate his wife, too, when he realized, after taking her from a local barnyard and marrying her, that she could never be anything but a sloe-eyed, shuffling peasant.

      He walked on with brisk health down the narrow dirt road that led toward Glen Oaks. Elm trees lined the road. The morning air was damp and cool. Dew kept the yellow dust settled where spots of sunlight came through leaves and speckled it. Birds darted freshly

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