The Narrows
“Gupta, the night man, that I would be checking out. He told me that because I had been keeping the place on a weekly basis, my credit card had already been dinged for the entire week and I told him that was fine, I was still leaving. I told him I would leave the key on the dinette table after I gathered up my belongings. I was about to leave the office when I hesitated and then asked him about my neighbor Jane.“Yes, she is gone, too. Same thing.”“What do you mean, same thing?”“We charge her for... a week but she not stay a week.”“Hey, do you mind me asking, what was her full name? I never got it.”“She is Jane Davis. You like?”“Yeah, she was nice. We talked on the balconies. I didn’t get to say good-bye. She didn’t leave a forwarding address or anything like that, did she?”Gupta smiled at the prospect of this. He had very pink gums for someone with such dark skin.“No address,” he said. “Not that one.”I nodded my thanks for the information he had given me.MoreLess
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