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deville watch,tiffany toggle heart,Chanel Purse,ladies gucci watches,new cartier@@@@@Her snores, which had earlier struck me
as pathetic in their naked antiquity, were now
actually comforting; otherwise, it would have been
too easy to imagine her sitting there dead with
her neck brokenI wondered if I should wake her,
and decided to let her sleepThen I glanced right,
toward the wide main staircase, and thought of her
saying Oh, you'll find it on the second floor
landing
Find what?
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Probably it had been just another bit of gibberish,
but I had nothing better to do, so I walked down
the hall that would have been a dogtrot in a
humbler house - the rain deville watch tapping the glass ceiling
- and then climbed the wide staircaseI stopped
five risers from the top, staring, then slowly
climbed the rest of the wayThere was something,
after all: an enormous black-and-white photograph
in a frame of narrow banded goldI asked Wireman
later how a black-and-white from the nineteentwenties
could have been blown up to such a size -
it had to have been at least five feet tall by
four wide - with so little blurringHe said it
had probably been taken with a Hasselblad, the
finest non-digital camera ever made
There were eight people in the tiffany toggle heart photograph,
standing on white sand with the Gulf of Mexico in
the backgroundThe man was tall and handsome and
appeared to be in his mid-fortiesHe was wearing
a black bathing singlet that consisted of a strapstyle
shirt and trunks that looked like the closefitting
underwear basketball players wear nowadays
Ranged on either side of him stood five girls, the
oldest a ripe teenager, the youngest identical
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towheads that made me think of the Bobbsey Twins
from my earliest adventures in readingThe twins
were wearing identical bathing dresses with
frilled skirts, and holding handsIn their Chanel Purse free
hands they clasped dangly-legged, apron-wearing
Raggedy Ann dolls that made me think of Reba
and the dark yarn hair above the vacantly smiling
faces of the twins' dolls was surely REDIn the
crook of one arm, the man - John Eastlake, I had
no doubt - held girl number six, the toddler who
would eventually become the snoring crone below me
Behind the white folks stood a young black woman
of perhaps twenty-two, with her hair tied in a
kerchiefShe was holding a picnic basket, and
judging from the way the not-inconsiderable
muscles in her arms were bunched, it was heavy
Three ladies gucci watches bangled silver bracelets clung to one
forearm
Elizabeth was smiling and holding out her chubby
little hands to whoever had taken this family
portraitNo one else was smiling, although there
might have been the ghost of one lurking around
the corners of the man's mouth; he had a mustache,
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and that made it hard to tellThe young black
nanny looked positively grim
In the hand not occupied with supporting the
toddler, John Eastlake held two itemsOne was a
skin diver's facemaskThe other was the harpoon
pistol I had seen mounted on the wall of the
library with the other new cartier weapon
