Dating in your forties

Okay, meet me at La Goulue for lunch at twelve-thirty. Because people started dying. Now, you were by the pool on Tuesday, but you had on ablue swimsuit. Why that color? It was out at the end of a carline. At one time it had been a rather exclusive suburb. Then it was sold, subdivided into lots, went through a fashionable period, then became a real estate white elephant. Around 1933 or 1934 a fire wiped out many of the old mansions. Then for a period of five or ten years, the place started filling up with shacks. It was a strange combination. A couple of the old mansions, standing in utter disrepair, surrounded by squalid hovels. As I sat there watching the sun go down I stopped thinking about Christmas trees and started thinking about what was really on my mind, which was the Vullo Foundation and what I had come to regard as The Mysterious Conspiracy Concerning Arch Mix. The area around Harpers Ferry wasnt a bad place to think about conspiracies. It had been the scene of a corker on October 16, 1859, when old John Brown seized the federal armory and then waited for 18,000 slaves in the area to join up with him in what he hoped would be a big insurrection and just general hell-raising. The only one problem was that Brown forgot to tell any of the slaves that he was coming so none of them showed up. Shes supposed to be, but where did she get it... or rather, where is she getting it? Jenny was the tall brunette with the wise eyes and she and the Senator must have used telepathy to communicate, because as soon as we were seated she came into the office bearing a tray with two cups of coffee.You use one spoonful of sugar, dont you, Mr. Longmire? she said and gave me another one of her wry smiles. Yes, I know all about that, continue. No, he said quickly. Im not at the office. Ive got a little apartment over on Mintwood Place. You know where Mintwood Place is? I really appreciate this, Dev. Weve had our differences but thats going to change. From now on Ill listen to you. You’re the expert.’ O ye of little faith. It got a little better after that. But only a little. I remembered that there was something I had to do. I couldnt quite recall what it was until I was almost to Key Bridge and then I remembered that Ruth had told me that we needed some gin. Well, that was true. We did need some. Quite a lot, in fact, so I stopped in a liquor store and bought two fifths of Gilbeys. Or perhaps it was Gordons. I reallydon’t remember. What happens now, Dev? Ted said. And ex-Army alpha male Travis Devine might just make a fetching target. And now youre trying to play all innocent by offering up your DNA. You make me sick. Next to the Mini was Devines BMW motorcycle. It was the only thing he had ever splurged on. Hed bought it used with money saved up from his Army pay. Okay, so what is Area 51 in my building, then? Did you manage to hack in there? Mason hung up the telephone and said to Della Street,Okay, Della, youll have to wait, and— Stone realized he was bleeding from his right temple. He picked up a fresh napkin from an unoccupied table and held it to his head..