By Andre Norton
Mike and Susan think a mounting feel of urgency and terror as they fight to guard their more youthful brother who turns out threatened by way of an invisible and robust strength in a home that has lengthy been of their kinfolk, on which there's supposedly a curse.
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She asked that aloud. ” Mike had come to the door she had left a little open. ” Susan pointed to the second doll. “They all have their names on the back. And they are awfully old, I think— these—they have faces from photographs… And they’ve real hair pasted on. ” Suddenly Susan had a strange feeling of uneasiness. No use sticking them back in the same box. It was too broken to handle. But she did not want to look at them any longer. She circled around Mike, who had come to the side of the bed and was bending over to get a closer look at those faces she had indicated.
Mike took a step closer to the big boy. Mike was tall for his age, but he had to look up to see the boy’s face. ” “That’s just it, kid. Nobody knows. ” He made his voice go deep. “Go and look over there —” He nodded toward the cemetery. ” “We aren’t Kuydalls,” Mike answered with the same words Susan had thought earlier. “And what about a curse? ” That was the other boy. “Here comes Mrs. Kingsley. She’ll skin you alive if she hears you sound off—” Lew glanced past the Whelans to the church, then laughed and shrugged.
They were the worst kind according to this Kimble guy and they really were killers—wild men. Well, you remember there were two brothers, Jacobus and Hendrik Kuydall. Hendrik had inherited this house when their father died. He was the one who took the Revolutionary side and was with Washington in the east. His wife and his three children had been living in the east too, but he sent them back here to live. Hendrik and Jacobus were part Indian because their mother was an Oneida. It’s in that old diary.