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    Rats in the Belfry
    Rats in the Belfry
    Rats in the Belfry
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    Rats in the Belfry

    By John York Cabot

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Rats in the Belfry - John York Cabot

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Rats in the Belfry, by John York Cabot

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      Title: Rats in the Belfry

      Author: John York Cabot

      Release Date: June 19, 2010 [EBook #32900]

      Language: English

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      Rats in the Belfry

      By JOHN YORK CABOT

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories January 1943. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      This house was built to specifications that were strange indeed; and the rats that inhabited it were stranger still!

      This little guy Stoddard was one of the toughest customers I'd ever done business with. To look at him you'd think he was typical of the mild pleasant little sort of suburban home owner who caught the eight-oh-two six days a week and watered the lawn on the seventh. Physically, his appearance was completely that of the inconspicuous average citizen. Baldish, fortiesh, bespectacled, with the usual behind-the-desk bay window that most office workers get at his age, he looked like nothing more than the amiable citizen you see in comic cartoons on suburban life.

      Yet, what I'm getting at is that this Stoddard's appearance was distinctly deceptive. He was the sort of customer that we in the contracting business would label as a combination grouser and eccentric.

      When he and his wife came to me with plans for the home they wanted built in Mayfair's second subdivision, they were already full of ideas on exactly what they wanted.

      This Stoddard—his name was George B. Stoddard in full—had painstakingly outlined about two dozen sheets of drafting paper with some of the craziest ideas you have ever seen.

      These specifications aren't quite down to the exact inchage, Mr. Kermit, Stoddard had admitted, for I don't pretend to be a first class architectural draftsman. But my wife and I have had ideas on what sort of a house we want for years, and these plans are the result of our years of decision.

      I'd looked at the plans a little sickly. The house they'd decided on was a combination of every architectural nightmare known to man. It was the sort of thing a respectable contractor would envision if he ever happened to be dying of malaria fever.

      I could feel them watching me as I went over their dream charts. Watching me

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