Black Alibi
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I. The Alibi She was sitting there at her glass, at the fashionable going-out hour, trying to decide between a cluster of crystal grapes and a live gardenia as a shoulder decoration, when someone knocked at the suite door, outside across the adjoining reception room.
Whatever her decision was in the matter, she knew it would have a city-wide effect. It meant that for the next few weeks hundreds of young women would... either all be wearing clusters of crystal grapes or live gardenias.
It was hard to believe that just a couple of brief years ago no one had cared a rap what she stuck on her shoulder. Nor anything else about her, for that matter. She’d been wearing her heels down to the quick and getting consistently laid off in an endless string of third-rate Detroit roadhouses. And now— She turned her head and gave it another look through the windows; she couldn’t resist it. That was the testimonial, the badge, of her importance, however transitory it might turn out to be; that out there.MoreLess
All rights reserved.
I. The Alibi She was sitting there at her glass, at the fashionable going-out hour, trying to decide between a cluster of crystal grapes and a live gardenia as a shoulder decoration, when someone knocked at the suite door, outside across the adjoining reception room.
Whatever her decision was in the matter, she knew it would have a city-wide effect. It meant that for the next few weeks hundreds of young women would... either all be wearing clusters of crystal grapes or live gardenias.
It was hard to believe that just a couple of brief years ago no one had cared a rap what she stuck on her shoulder. Nor anything else about her, for that matter. She’d been wearing her heels down to the quick and getting consistently laid off in an endless string of third-rate Detroit roadhouses. And now— She turned her head and gave it another look through the windows; she couldn’t resist it. That was the testimonial, the badge, of her importance, however transitory it might turn out to be; that out there.MoreLess
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