Chapter 13: Wassamere College
Two other guests were staying at Riverside whom we met at breakfast. Finn Haggart drove in from Buffalo, New York, for business. Ben and I learned that the stout man with the handlebar mustache was the father of twin boys and the husband to Clarissa Baine, a paperback mystery writer who specialized in cozies. Finn declared himself a lawyer and used pretentious legal words and terms over breakfast that both Ben and I thought amusingly ridiculous.
The other guest was a bleached-blond young woman with peg-like appendages, Christie; a last name wasn’t shared. Christie looked like Caitlyn Jenner without the wrinkles around her mouth. Her story of being in the city entailed a reunion with her biological father. At forty-five, the mother of three and faithful wife
