Genero left a day early on the train from State College to Philadelphia. He caught another through New York to Boston. Even with the inevitable delays, he arrived at the hotel several hours before Linda expected him.
Genero anxiously entered the hotel on that blustery day in March. He approached the desk clerk. In the most sophisticated voice he could muster, he asked the older man if the Wellington Arms had the Genero reservation.
The clerk had worked in the hotel for over 15 years. He realized something was up, but he recognized that the most valuable trait of a hotel clerk was the ability to mind one’s own business.
The clerk told Genero that his sister “Karen” had already registered and would be waiting in the room. Phil and Linda had planned this little deception to throw off the h
