Cat Bearing Gifts

by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

  Pan said nothing. They sat thinking about that. Maybe it was the enchantment of the garden that made everything seem so different tonight, that made them come together in their thoughts, that helped the two resolve their conflict. Sitting close together looking around at the garden and down into Pedric’s lighted hospital room watching their human friends, they no longer bristled at each other; they sat thinking about the amazing world around them, and about their roles in it. And when, at last, they returned through the narrow window, their ears were up and they were ready to move on, to trot boldly on into whatever amazements waited, there ahead of them.

  About the Author

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  In addition to her popular Joe Grey mystery series for adults, for which she has received ten national Cat Writers’ Association Awards for best novel of the year, Shirley Rousseau Murphy is a noted children’s book author who has received five Council of Authors and Journalists Awards. She and her husband live in Carmel, California, where they serve as full-time household help to two demanding feline ladies.

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  ALSO BY SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY

  Cat Telling Tales

  Cat Coming Home

  Cat Striking Back

  Cat Playing Cupid

  Cat Deck the Halls

  Cat Pay the Devil

  Cat Breaking Free

  Cat Cross Their Graves

  Cat Fear No Evil

  Cat Seeing Double

  Cat Laughing Last

  Cat Spitting Mad

  Cat to the Dogs

  Cat in the Dark

  Cat Raise the Dead

  Cat Under Fire

  Cat on the Edge

  The Catsworld Portal

  Credits

  Cover illustration by Beppe Giacobbe/Morgan Gaynin Inc.

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  CAT BEARING GIFTS. Copyright © 2012 by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  ISBN 978-0-06-180694-0

  EPub Edition © DECEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062200310

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