The Baby Blue Rip-Off

ISBN: 9780802754752

定价: 39.00

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OMETHING was wrong. I eased out of the van??? shut the
door as soundlessly as I could??? and jogged up toward the
house??? leaving behind what I d come to deliver. Because
something was definitely wrong.
From half a mile down the road??? I d spotted the lights;
every damn light in the house was going??? which was way out
of character for its occupant??? an elderly woman who had
pinched pennies for so many yea~s it was second nature now
to sit in the dark and save on elecC~ricity. Yet here the house
was??? lit up like Christmas??? beacons of light streaking out the
windows of the clapboard crackerbox and cutting through the
night the way a movie projector cuts through a dark theater.
The next thing I noticed was the cars. Even before I d
brought the van to a halt??? I noticed them??? parked fight up
there next to the house??? on the lawn??? crowding the screened-
in porch like relatives at a millionaire s deathbed. Actually???
only one of the two vehicles was a car: a late-model white
Pontiac GTO trimmed in sporty??? tasteless red and blue--you
could be arrested for desecrating the flag driving that car.
The other vehicle was??? like my Dodge??? a van; only this one
was a Ford and--unlike my relatively new??? sky blue
number--pale green and of indeterminate age.
The cars were just as wrong as the bright lights; the resi-
dent of the little bungalow didn t own any sort of car??? let alone
a GTO or a van??? both of which seemed a little unlikely for
an elderly??? mostly incapacitated person. Why not a Harley
Davidson??? or a submarine?