《Lucifer Jones Chartreuse Mansions》作者：Mike Resnick【EPUB】

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Back | Next Contents Chartreuse Mansions I wandered through the wilderness for a few days after leaving Dr. Mirbeau and his Island of Annoyed Souls. I figgered any minute now a great big city would break into view, but you'd be surprised how few of them there are down in South America, and especially in the middle of the jungle. They'd told me that the Amazon Basin was filled with Indians, but I never saw no basin, just a bunch of swamps and rivers. Finally, when I'd been on my own for five days, I ran head- first into a couple of little bitty fellers, maybe an inch or two over five feet, and dressed for exactly the kind of warm humid weather what we was having a lot of, which is to say they wore loincloths and matching headbands, and if they had on a third thing I never saw it. Well, these wasn't like no Indians I'd ever seen back in the States, before the government give me my walking papers, but I figgered what the hell, how different can one Indian be from another, so I held up my hand and said "How!" The one on the right jumped back, and the one on the left looked like he might faint dead away, so I figured I better keep talking while I still had an audience. "I have traveled many moons," I said. "Seek city of the palefaces. Especially interested in wampum." They just looked at me like I was some kind of foreigner who was too stupid to speak Indian, and even when I tapped myself on the chest and explained that I was their Kemosabee they just kind of stood there like a couple of potted plants, and I decided that I'd been the victim of false doctrine and whatever these two