All she was worth by Miyabe Miyuki 1960-;Birnbaum Alfred & Birnbaum Alfred

Author:Miyabe, Miyuki, 1960-;Birnbaum, Alfred & Birnbaum, Alfred
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 1999-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Mrs. Miyata laughed. "I did?"

Tamotsu Honda. Honma took down the name and the address of his family's auto repair shop and got up to leave. "One more thing."

"What's that?"

He brought out the photo of the fake Shoko. "Ever see this woman before? Perhaps she came in here at some point with Shoko."

She took the photo, then passed it over to the woman under the drier.

"No, don't recognize her," Mrs. Miyata said.

"What's this girl got to do with it?" the other woman asked.

"Oh, nothing really."

Mrs. Miyata took another look at the photo. "I wonder if I could borrow this for a while," she asked. "I'd like to show it around to a few people. I'll be sure to return it. If I find out anything, I'll give you a call."

Good thing Honma had had the foresight to have extra copies made. "Yes, of course. Please do." He grabbed his coat and turned to go.

She stopped him. "So what kind of fellow is she marrying, this Seki-ne girl?"

"My own good-for-nothing nephew."

"No, I mean, what sort of work is he in?"

Honma hesitated. "He works in a bank."

Kanae Miyata and her customer looked at one another in the mirror and nodded. Then Mrs. Miyata came out with some unsolicited advice. "I expect it'd be just as well if he called the whole thing off."

As the mother of small children and the wife of a gambler, she was used to carrying a lot of responsibility. It was only natural that she'd cast a cold eye on the likes of Shoko Sekine—someone who had left home for the big city, only to slip into the dark underworld of Tokyo's clubland.

"I'll be sure to tell him to think it over," said Honma. Mrs. Miyata smiled, satisfied.

This time the door to the LOreal Salon hardly made a sound. Honma gave a sigh of relief as he emerged.

"Tamotsu, you've got a customer!" a middle-aged mechanic in

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