From that day on, Green kept his powerful eagle stone stowed away and “wrap in a leaf from the Bible.” Those who possessed an eagle stone were reputed to be able to attract not only game but “almost any object you can name.”

The foyer carpet needed regular shampooings.

Kidnapping usually includes the seizing, confining, and carrying away (asportation) of another by force, threat, or deception, and without consent.

Roddy hugged her and told her not to worry, he was “a box of fluffy ducks,” as he liked to say to mean he was fine.