her to do. She Kinished the rest of the packing and then said to goodbye to her old place.“ New beginnings, new next door neighbors, new mailing address, SCORE!”
“ I repeat we cannot rush into this. We don’ t know anything about this‘ source’ and we certainly do not want to have another Goldbloom situation on our hands.” Knobwood took a deep breath and continued with his spiel.“ Does anybody have any ideas?”
“ We could grill Kørtney again,” said Sergeant Mulgren, one of the lonelier police ofKicers.
Knobwood sighed. He was largely regretting participating in the foreign exchange program.“ Think of the tax break,” he slowly repeated to himself,“ think of the tax break.”
Megan took a shaky step into her new apartment. A big smile came over her face. Megan was free.“ If this isn ' t swanky living. I don’ t know what is!” she exclaimed after a long session of jumping on her new water bed, which she christened Oprah. She had gotten a new identity from a back-‐-‐-‐ alley fake I. D. shop which she knew from years in the business. It wasn ' t the best quality identities but she had seven punches on her punch card and with three more she could get a free I. D. She had asked for a new name, one she was
certain that no one could pronounce it wrong. She chose Tina. Tina Turner had been her favorite singer when she was a kid and Tina, the woman formerly referred to as Megan, had never heard anyone call her Teeny.“ Foolproof,” she giddily thought to herself. But as anybody with a new identity knows, you need a background. That was why Tina bought a Wisconsin cap, a pair of sandals, and a CD copy of a William Shatner spoken word album. Life was great. So far.
After a consensus vote between the ofKicers which ended up in a heated argument over which person was going to take Kørtney to the airport, Knobwood and his crew had made a plan to Kind and capture the mysterious ivory dealer which they nicknamed“ Not As Hot As Kørtney”.( Knobwood would like to add that the nickname won by popular vote, and not as the others would say by a 100 % majority.) One thing they could all agree on was that they had to put their plan in action A. S. A. P.
Tina was, for the Kirst time in her life, genuinely happy. As she was leaving, she got a great idea. She would leave herself a note of people’ s names( pretend, of course) so she could make believe that she was hosting a really fancy dinner party and she had a list of the