“DARLA WAS NOTHING SPECIAL.BEAUTY,POWER,MONEy.NO BRAINS WORTH
         
         MENTIONING.THE DEAR DID THREE PHOTO SESSIONS AND MANGLED TWO
         
         MILLION OUT OF US.NEITHER OF HER HEROIC LOOKING PHOTOS MADE ANY
         
         SUCESS.SHE JUST LOOKED LIKE SHE’S,EXCUSE ME,SHE’D BEEN AROUND.”
           MY MIND CHURNED.
         
           “SUCH A SHAME.IF ONLY SHE HADN’T BEEN INVOLVED WITH WHAT’S—HIS—
         NAME.” MRS.MACLAINE SAID.MY HEAD SHOT UP.
         
           “TODD? TODD SASHY?” I ASKED.MRS.MACLAIN SHOOK HER HEAD.
         “ALEXANDER SOMEBODY.REALLY BAD,REALLY SLIMY.” I ALMOST LAUGHED
         IN HER FACE.HERE I HAD BEEN WORRIED ABOUT NOT GETTING A HELLO
         FROM HER BUT HERE SHE WAS BABBLING AWAY.
         
           “WHICH BANK DID SHE GO TO?” I ASKED.I WAS SURE SHE’D BE GETTING
         SUSPICIOUS.
         
           “EASTERN FEDERAL ON BROCK STREET.. .ANYWAY,SO ANYWAY SHE WAS
         
         POSING FOR THIS REA—” I BLOCKED HER OUT A MOMENT.I LOOKED AT
         
         MY WATCH.FIVE TWENTY.I HAD TO MEET TODD IN AN HOUR AND A HALF.I
         
         STOOD ABPRUPTLY.
         
           “MRS.MACLAINE,I BEG YOU TO FORGIVE ME BUT I MUST RUN.COULD I
         USE YOUR PHONE?” MRS.MACLAINE’S FACE FELL SLIGHTLY.
         
           “FEEL FREE.” I SNATCHED UP THE RECEIVER.I THOUGHT HARD.
         555—6574.IT RUNG TWICE.
         
           “EASTERN FEDERAL.WE’RE THE BANK YOU CAN TRUST.CAN I HELP YOU?”
         MY MIND CHURNED HARDER.
         
           “YES.I’D LIKE TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT THIS WEEK.”
         A PAUSE.
         
           “FOR AN ACCOUNT~”
         
           “YES.THIS IS MISS JESSICA TANDY.”
         
            “HOW ABOUT FRIDAY... .AT TWO TEN?”
         
         “SOUNDS GREAT.BYE.” I HUING UP.I THANKED MRS.MACLUNE AND RACED
         DOWN THE STAIRS TO THE JEEP.I HOPPED INSIDE AND DROVE TO MY HOUSE.
         
         I BARELY PARKED THE CAR AND I JUMPED OUT AND UNLOCKED THE DOOR.
         
         I RAN UPSTAIRS AND TOOK OFF THE BLAZER AND SKIRT.I BRUSHED MY
         
         AHIR OUT AND PUT ON A PAIR OF WHITESWEAT PANTS AND BIG BLACK

         SWEATER.I APPLIED SOME BLUSH AND LIP GLOSS AND GRABBED JEFF’S

         LEATHER JACKEY.I WAS HALFWAY OUT THE DOOR WHEN THE PHONE RANG.