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Old Rambling House, by Frank Patrick Herbert
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Title: Old Rambling House
Author: Frank Patrick Herbert
Illustrator: Johnson
Release Date: July 22, 2009 [EBook #29492]
Language: English
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Old Rambling House
By FRANK HERBERT
All the Grahams desired was a home they could call their own ... but what did the home want?
Illustrated by JOHNSON
On his last night on Earth, Ted Graham stepped out of a glass-walled telephone booth, ducked to avoid a swooping moth that battered itself in a frenzy against a bare globe above the booth.
Ted Graham was a long-necked man with a head of pronounced egg shape topped by prematurely balding sandy hair. Something about his lanky, intense appearance suggested his occupation: certified public accountant.
He stopped behind his wife, who was studying a newspaper classified page, and frowned. "They said to wait here. They'll come get us. Said the place is hard to find at night."
Martha Graham looked up from the newspaper. She was a doll-faced woman, heavily pregnant, a kind of pink prettiness about her. The yellow glow from the light above