MOON-FACE AND OTHER STORIES     

  

   

   

       Contents     

  MOON-FACE  

  THE LEOPARD MAN’S STORY  

  LOCAL COLOR  

  AMATEUR NIGHT  

  THE MINIONS OF MIDAS  

  THE SHADOW AND THE FLASH  

  ALL GOLD CANYON  

  PLANCHETTE  

   

    

       MOON-FACE     

       John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like a dough-ball upon the ceiling. Perhaps that is why I hated him, for truly he had become an offense to my eyes, and I believed the earth to be cumbered with his presence. Perhaps my mother may have been superstitious of the moon and looked upon it over the wrong shoulder at the wrong time.     

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