Explore "The Vanishing of Betty Varian" by Carolyn Wells on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Doctor Herbert Varian stood slightly apart from the rest of the group, his observant eyes taking in all the details of the peculiar situation of his brother's house. His eye traversed back over the short distance they had already come, and he saw a narrow, winding and exceedingly steep path. At intervals it was a succession of broken, irregular steps, rocky and sharp-edged. Again, it would be a fairly easy, though stony footway. But it led to the house, and had no branch or side track in any direction.
"Everything and everybody that comes to this house has to come by this path? " he demanded.