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Ty wasn’t couard Her lack of trust was as thick in the air as the ser answered When he didn’t, Ty nodded “You’re right I’h I have attended law school” He didn’t bother to add that it had been years ago, before he’d gone overseas Roger Nightingale would tell her all that

“Out east,” she said “I can tell by your accent”

He nodded again, and proceeded to tell her what he’d told Roger last night

Even if she had been able to sleep, Nor out notes she’d made on every musician who’d played at the resort over the last couple of years She had notes on ones that had played other places, too, even the Plantation Years ago, the nightclub had been as big as the resort, drawing in crowds like no other That was before Galen Reynolds had left for California and Forrest had returned

Norh, wasn’t focused on her notes, or the Plantation, or even Forrest Reynolds None of that had been the reason she hadn’t been able to sleep The stench of a rat had done that, and the s at her

Ty Bradshaw

Thethe resort since sunrise She knew a varrin tugged at her lips She should feel guilty, sending the workmen over to the cabin next to his so early, but there were no other guests in the nearby cabins They wouldn’t arrive until later this week And she did want the renovations done by then Besides, the workhts in their tents from her bedroom

As her heart did a little flutter, recalling seeing Ty outside her officea short tirabbed a pen “You are no gentleman, Ty Bradshaw,” she mumbled

Scanning the first pages of her notes, she huffed out another breath Her er Her youngest sister would pitch a fit, but Ginger knew all the local er girls to er had perfect penularly, and was interested in such things

Ginger would be up in a couple of hours and although her duties, along with those of Twyla and Josie, were doing laundry and cleaning cabins, Norma Rose could ask her to help find perforer wouldn’t mind Twyla and Josie would

Norma Rose just couldn’t understand why her sisters weren’t as dedicated to the resort as she was They, too, remembered secondhand clothes and soup three ti their closets, along with the cosmetics, jewelry and shoes, yet they didn’t seem to make the connection that the only way to maintain all the fineries they’d co sure every minor detail was seen to Just last week she’d had tooff bird droppings was not acceptable Her sister was still mad at her

Then again, Tas always mad at her

Footsteps in the hall had Nor her head It had been soone out to see Uncle Dave She’d al the s and powerful, and she couldn’t expose herself to it again Not this early in the h, and kept her gaze on her door, waiting for her father to open it

The footsteps went right past her door without slowing

Her heart seeain For the briefest of moments, she’d wondered if Ty would be with her father

Letting out a breath, she concluded thehad started Part of the reason she liked coet in a few hours before the chaos started By eight, the resort would be huht of catering to guests

Twirling her pen between her fingers, she gave in and let her mind focus on Ty Bradshaw He wasn’t a lawyer He was poh, but he just didn’t look the part He was almost too smooth Maybe he was a runner, or a buyer, which would explain hi Dave, but runners or buyers never stayed at the resort Their bosses did, but she felt sure Ty wasn’t a mobster, either

The pen tuent

Hired to raid speakeasies, find and destroy stills, and arrest gangsters, a few had visited the resort before, but they’d never found anything Ty didn’t dress like an agent, though Norents were paid less money than factory workers, which is why they accepted money under the table so easily

Ty could be a revenue , they’d send in a revenuefor tax evasion They’d find no tax evasion at the resort, either Every diovernment hadn’t planned very well What they’d lost in tax dollars gained by the legal sale of alcohol, they were trying towith new taxes came new tax lawyers, and the resort paid several to keep abreast of every law that appeared

Prohibition had changed the world, in some ways for the better, as with Norma Rose’s new life at the resort, and in other ways for the worse The problem she saas that the law hadn’t done what it had initially set out to do Based on the Temperance movement, which blamed all of society’s problee all that That sure hadn’t happened Cri about the consumption of alcohol, either It focused on the sale, transportation andAll a person needed was a prescription and they had better access to alcohol than when saloons had lined the streets of every town

Nor any laws, but Prohibition created a society where even the average person broke the law She didn’t like that, either, but, ain

Lost in her little world of what she’d do if anyone would ever listen to her, Norlanced up, the ink pen between her fingers snapped in two