Cook's Night Out by Joanne Pence

Author:Joanne Pence
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Published: 1997-01-24T10:00:00+00:00

Finally Paavo got back the results of the tests on the glass with Hodge’s fingerprints, the one Angie had given him. He tore the envelope open, eager to find out just who the Reverend T. Simon Hodge really was.

He scanned the short write-up quickly, then read it again more slowly, but the bottom line was summed up in only two words: No match.

“I’d say Mr. Klaw—actually now it’s Clausen—fancies himself a ladies’ man, yes,” replied Reverend Hodge in answer to Angie’s question. She sat in the mission’s dining room, sipping coffee and turning pages of a cookbook filled with fancy hors d’oeuvres, but her mind was miles away. “Are you interested in him, Miss Amalfi?”

That brought her back. “God, no! I was just curious about him and Lili, mostly.”

“She lives with him in his apartment over the mission. I won’t say it’s a love match, but they do seem to have a certain compatibility,” Hodge ventured.

“I guess they do,” she said. “I didn’t realize there were apartments upstairs.”

“Four. I have a small one, as does Mr. Warren. Klaw and Lili share the largest, and the fourth is empty. Are you looking for a place to live?”

“No, thanks.” She turned back to the cookbook, but couldn’t suppress a small sigh.

He had been passing through the dining room taking a roundabout route to his office, but now he stopped and sat beside her. “What’s wrong, Miss Amalfi? You look like you lost your best friend.”

She shut the book. “I have—the man I love. I’m so worried. Last night I took him somewhere with me, and the place was raided. Now he’s in even worse trouble, and none of it’s his fault. It’s mine.”

“Why would you choose a place like that?”

“I was trying to be helpful. Instead I caused more harm.”

“You meant well.”

“I don’t see that it matters,” she lamented.

“The world is a funny place, Miss Angie,” Reverend Hodge said. “Those who do bad things often seem to live high on the hog. But you just wait awhile. Every time, eventually, a big butcher comes along and that hog ends up as bologna sandwiches.”

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