Magical Cool Cats Mysteries Boxed Set Vol 2(Books 4,5,6 & 7) by Mary Matthews

Author:Mary Matthews [Matthews, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

In Cupcake Kitty’s room, Grace flipped through an issue of The New Yorker. She spied an ad for OBESI-TEA that promised you could drink it off as you take it on.

“Jack,” she said, showing him the ad, “it says OBESI-TEA is available on hotel menus. Do you think when people order OBESI-TEA, waiters ever say, looks like you already have it?”

“Not if the waiter wants a good tip.”

Cupcake Kitty laughed. She didn’t seem upset about Eddie’s demise. Cupcake Kitty pulled a lipstick out of her wrist purse. It had a mirror on the side and she put on more red lipstick.

“I love that. A mirror on the side. What will they think of next?”

“Sliced bread and mirrors on lipstick. We’ve got it all.”

“What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?”

“Your birth,” Jack said, squeezing Grace’s hand.

You two are a giggle,” Cupcake Kitty said. “One time in a speakeasy, I saw a woman walking around with a sign that read ‘Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.’ I thought that would limit her chances of meeting someone.

Hemingway says he drinks to make other people more interesting. I’m reading the Sun Also Rises. Nico has the same problem Jake had in The Sun Also Rises.”

“Jake didn’t have pock marks.” Grace remembered reading stories of women small pox survivors who used wax to conceal their marks before they put on powder. It worked great. Unless they sat too close to the fire, then the wax melted.

Cupcake Kitty told them what it was like for her when she met Nico.

“I came to California because I wanted to be a movie star after I saw Clara Bow in It. And my high school guy told me I could be an It girl too. Trouble is when I got here I couldn’t find a job. Have you ever been hungry without money for food?”

Grace nodded yes. Jack said, “We were in the trenches without food for awhile during the Great War.”

“I had gone for days without eating. I had no dough. When I met Nico, I was in a speakeasy in downtown L.A. It’s easy to find guys to buy drinks. I hoped they’d have peanuts or something too. But there wasn’t anything to eat in the speakeasy. I kind of passed out at the bar. Nico carried me out and asked, “Are you in the movies?”

I said No, and he said you should be. You have a movie star look. As soon as Nico gets out of bootlegging and buys a movie studio, I’m going to be a movie star.”

“I like your dress,” Grace said, recognizing true Chanel haute couture from visits to Paris during her Finishing School days, and uncertain what to say to Nico’s claims he’d put Cupcake Kitty in the movies.

“Nico bought it for me. He picks out all my clothes. Decides what I’m going to wear everyday. He goes through my closets and drawers.”

Jack caught a moth with his hand.

Then, he released it out the window.

“Papillon de nuit.”

“What?”

“Butterfly of night.

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