Chapter Ten
My plans changed in an instant. Instead of going on a dull document search, digging into the lives and loves of a good many of the fun souls I'd met that morning, I went to the circus. Meaning, I stayed for the noon performance of the circus already at the center of my universe. I needed Alfonso's idea concerning Sybil's whereabouts. He wouldn't cough it up until I promised he could go with me in search of the Bearded Lady. He couldn't go until, you guessed it, after the noon show.
You've been to a circus. There's little to be gained from a moment by moment description of this one. Ballyhoo was the word. And music, laughter, thrills, and lots of noise. Oh, and clowns, all sorts of clowns, girl, boy, tall, fat, crazy, and crying clowns. And, let us not forget Binky, the shorte
