CHAPTER 30“You mean”—Sibyl stood in front of the medicine-cabinet mirror in the Protection Office, primping, with that cat-lapping-thick-cream air of a girl well aware she doesn’t need to primp—“that Yosef made up that tale about being hired by Peter the B.?”
“Not at all.” Don let her see that he appreciated her. “As Wally would say, it was a mistake in identity on Yosef’s part. He’d worked as an occasional pot mender at the Grand Luxe Commissary but he’d never seen Baskoulos there. Yosef had seen Shep Jefferson with Baskoulos’ jockey, may have heard ‘Mister Baskoulos’ mentioned by Hay-Hay, and jumped to the conclusion that the manager was the boss himself. Shep Jefferson thought he saw a chance to turn the gypsy’s mistake to his own advantage; simply kept up the pretense.”
“Madame Marbo
