One Painting Short of a Duel

Hallway etiquette: violated. Includes hostile coat racks.

Out in the hallway, the umbrellas were gone. Now there were coat racks, dozens of them, bent and twisted into a thicket. Tags still dangled from the hooks, all blank, except for one, but Illo couldn’t read it.

Little Sir Menace, far down the corridor, toddled ahead. Each step made a different noise. Sometimes a bell, sometimes a sigh, and once the sound …