[MaC] Breaking the news

[Brenda McCartney]

--- Mel Mason <goldfired at oxmust.co.uk> wrote:

> >> It was agreed then that the three should call in at Mrs
> >> Evans' flat on the way back up to the party.
> >>
> >> This, of course, meant that they came face to face with
> >> Sweetie, who was stretched out on the sofa.  He looked up
> >> coldly at the unwarranted intrusion.
> >
> > "Right, gents," Philip said, very seriously. "I'm going to try to
> get back
> > to the bath, which is where I keep the gauze. I'd keep from getting
> any
> > closer to the cat, and try to avoid any sudden movements. Wish me
> luck."
> > Suiting deed to word, he began moving, stealthily, towards the
> bathroom
> > door, his eyes fixed on the cat.
> >
> 
> Sweetie watched his endeavours with some contempt.  When Philip
> reached the 
> most vulnerable point of his progress, he yawned widely, and then set
> to 
> work at cleaning his claws with a series of vicious tugging bites. 
> There 
> was a strange sense that he was preparing his weapons. 

Cyril leaned over to Braham as he watched Phillip make his way around
the cat.  "That cat's a bloody menace, he is," Cyril commented softly. 
"You can hear it yowling all the way upstairs at night.  Louder than
the air raid sirens sometimes."



		
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