GINEVRA
Must you stop at every stop?
Some trolleys did, others did not. I had gotten on the wrong one. A silly, stupid mistake that could hurt dearest Pearl. I couldn"t know what Mabel wanted from Pearl, if my dearest friend was in true danger. I knew only that Mabel had struck Pearl once already. I knew that strange feeling I had had whenever in Mabel"s company from the moment she rushed back into our lives.
Portsmouth was the town on the northernmost tip of Aquidneck Island, where the island comprised mostly of Newport ended in a curl of land around a large cove. It had been nothing but coal mines until a few years ago and Mabel"s husband had owned one of those mines. That was how he had made his money, or so Mabel had told us.
I knew nothing about where on Portsmouth Mabel lived. We
