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More nahth Step How did you et as soon as you’d written up the report? I wasn’t even sure I’d been wrong to take the money If my partner and I left it, that just ally supposed to get it? The State of New York? What the hell did some bureau in Albany need with five dollars here and ten dollars there, or even a princely 972?

On the other hand, it wasn’t my money

A lot of John Does and Richard Roes for my list, plus a couple of Mary Moes Because women died too, of causes natural and unnatural, and you had to look in their purses for ID, didn’t you? And you’d always find a couple of dollars

I was partnered with one prince of the city who took a pair of hoop earrings frohteen karat," he said "What does the poor darling need with gold earrings in potter’s field?"

I told him to keep them Was I sure? Yes, I said, I was sure Be a shame to split the pair, I said

Noble of et ood? Well, St Peter, one tiold from a dead whore’s ears But I restrained nize you," I said

Donna grinned, fluffed her hair "Is it that different?"

The long auburn hair that had flowed down over her shoulders, and occasionally drifted into her eyes, had been cropped boyishly short and perht cap of curls Richard, behind the wheel, said, "Isn’t it fabulous? And positively transformative--or do I want to say transformational?"

Nobody offered an opinion on that one

"Well," he said, "whichever the word is, that’s it What a metamorphosis! From Brenda Starr to Little Orphan Annie"

"I wish you hadn’t told me that," she said "I always liked Brenda Starr"

"What have you got against Annie?"

"Nothing, but I never much wanted to look like her" She was in the front of the car, next to Richard, and she had an arm hooked over her seat back so that she could look at me "Well, Matthew S? What’s your verdict?"

"It looked nice long," I said, "and it looks nice short One thing it does, it shows off your face better"

"It used to get lost in all that hair," Richard said "Now it pops"

"I look like Little Orphan Annie and s, sweetie Trust me"

"All I know," she said, "is it’s done The boy who doesand told him what I wanted"

"Like, ‘Oooh, how can you possibly want me to do that to you?’ "

"Not at all," she told hi to cut my hair forever ‘I finally talked you into it!’ But it wasn’t his doing"

"The occasion," I guessed "Washing that ht out of your hair"

Richard said he always loved Mary Martin Donna said, "Sort of, but not exactly I called hiht"

"Vinnie," I said

"Which was probably a mistake, because I didn’t want to hear his voice, or for hiht I should res this afternoon, and that it would help if he could contrive to be elsewhere"

"And?"

"I don’t know if he was able to take in the infor on and on abouthair, and hoanted to see it spread out on his pillow and, well, other things I’d just as soon not repeat"

"We’ll use our overheated iinations," Richard said

"I’ht, You know, buster, if you likewith it And whether there is or not, you’ve seen it for the last tiht to the beauty parlor, and Hervé was able to fit me in, and the rest is history"

"It’s not history, sweetie, it’s art appreciation Just fabulous"

"Thank you, Richard"

"But Hervé? Honestly?"

"I think it used to be Harvey"