J U Giesy

The House of Invisible Bondage J U Giesy

Book Excerptradio, if you like. He does that sort of thing.""It's wonderful, almost unbelievable," she said. "Do you hear, Moira? He's going to see us; and he'll help Imer. I feel sure he will.""It is--wonderful indeed," Moira Mason spoke for the first time since she had been seated."Then, can we go to him now?" Marya Harding prompted."Of course," I agreed, and rose. Five minutes later I escorted both women from the elevator grille on the twentieth floor to the bronze-and-marble stairway that led to Semi Dual's domain on the roof. We mounted. It was a July day, and Semi's garden, slumbered under the light of late morning like a dream picture more than a scene of the modern world. There were beds of shrubbery and flowers flanking the central path, the nodding, drowsy heads roses, red and white and yellow. Their perfume was a warm spice in our nostrils. And before us was the tower, a thing of dark etched shadows, and whiteness. There was the tiny fountain with a gray an