They Do It With Mirrors by They Do It;Mirrors

Author:They Do It;Mirrors
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-10-20T16:15:16+00:00

“Suit yourself.” Her voice was a little bit smother as she was already wiggling her dress over her hea

She wore pants, whether Estelle ever did or notplain, white knit that looked clean and neat. She c not wear a brassiere and did not need to. The concc tion I had gotten of her figure in the Magic Mirror ‘~ entirely justified. She was simply the most magn~ cently beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. street clothes she was a beautiful, well-built wom~ in her skin—wars have started over less.

I was beginning to doubt my ability to stay on t couch. I must have showed it, for she snorted, “Wi the drool off your chin!” and stepped out of Ipants.

‘Scuse, please,” I answered and started unlaci my shoes. She stepped over and switched off the ligI then went over to the one big window and raised t shade. It was closed but, with the light out, you coi see outside easily. “Stand back from that window, said. “You’re too good a target.”

“Huh? Oh, very well.” She backed up a few steps ic

continued to stare thoughtfully out the window. I stared thoughtfully at her. There w~as a big neon sign across the street and the colored lights, pouring in the window, covered her from head to foot with a rosy liquid glow. She looked like something out of a dream of fairyland.

Presently I wasn’t thinking how she looked; I was thinking about another room, where a girl had lain murdered, with the lights of a night club shining through a pane of glass, shining through like this neon.

My thoughts rearranged themselves rapidly and very painfully. I added them up a second time and still got the same answer. I did not like the answer. I was glad, damn glad, she was bare naked, with no way to conceal a gun, or a knife, or any other sort of deadly weapon. “Hazel,” I said softly.

She turned to me. “Yes, Eddie?”

“I’ve just had a new idea .. . why should anyone want to kill you?”

“You said that before. There isn’t any.reason.”

“I know. You’re right; there isn’t any. But put it this way—why should you want to kill Estelle?”

I thought she was going to faint again, but I didn’t care—I wanted to shock her. Her lusciousness meant nothing to me now but a trap that had confused my thoughts. I had not wanted to think her guilty, so I had disregarded the fact that of all the persons involved she was the only one with the necessary opportunity, the knowledge of the swapped shows, and at least some motive. She had made it plain that she detested Estelle. She had covered it up but it was still evident.

But most important of all, the little stage had not been dark! True, it looked dark—from the outside. You can’t see through glass when all the light comes from one side and you are on that same side—but light passes through the glass just the same.

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