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Maggie wasn’t in her room by the time I got back from having Italian food with Harry, or at least she didn’t answer when I knocked at her door. I suspected she was still off at her party, and wondered idly if Kardom was there with her. She hadn’t said he would be, but he had a way of showing up at swanky parties that led me to suspect he’d make a showing.
“Which brings up the question how he found out I was here in the first place,” I mused aloud to Valentino when we took an evening walk around the block. I discovered that he enjoyed the bedtime walks, his tail held high while he marched along, periodically pausing to sniff a bit of w**d poking through a sidewalk, and stopping to allow people to pet him. “He must have maintained contact with Maggie, because there’s no way C
