John William Waterhouse Lamia painting

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Crows on an iron fence, an eagle on a rock, a fierce-eyed heron as prehistoric as a pterodactyl: All peered into this living room from other times, other places.Paranoid and unashamed of it, Ethan sensed that when he looked away from the thunder and lightning, yet still foreboding, dark and dire.The light proved too dim to facilitate their work. Hazard got up and switched on the small black-and-white ceramic chandelier over the table.Eleven bundles of checks had been bound with rubber bands, one for each month of the current year from January through November. The canceled checks from the current month would not be forwarded by the bank until mid-January.When they finished, they would have to return everything to the shoebox and replace the large photographs, the birds therein turned their heads [392] to watch him, all aware that he ought to be dead and that the man who had collected their images should be alive to admire them.“Here,” Hazard said, withdrawing a shoebox from one of the desk drawers. “Bank statements, canceled checks.”They sat at the stainless-steel and black-Formica dinette table to review Reynerd’s financial records.Beside the table: a window. Beyond the window: the tumultuous day, entirely in shades of gray, wind-whipped, awash, now without the