<div class="floatleft">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4474/fy1ijwqfvup45ew6g.jpg) <br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Peter Warcaof</span></strong> <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">CGDA Benefactor</span></strong></div></div></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;">I shan’t rely on first impressions, but was I not requested to be here?<br/><br/>Miss Lippy is in a bathrobe and Mr. Nicky is at least dressed, but I, not a detective at all, can detect he is coming freshly from a shower.  Is this what some call <em>spa life</em>?<br/><br/>The name Lippy has been explained and I have nodded at that.   <br/><br/>Mr. Nicky embarks on the discussion point, but questionably alluding to an ‘apparent disappearance’.  <br/><br/>I wonder if I have Phanessa’s number in my phone.  And, if I do, how I find it.<br/><br/><strong>“I don’t believe ‘disappearance’ properly describes the situation.  Miss Rosendahl, a longtime friend and colleague, usually quite balanced, has become enamored of a lifestyle with one Dianne du Monde.”</strong>  I unintentionally or intentionally whisper <em>“She has occasionally been inclined to . . . go off(?)”</em> <br/><br/><strong>“So we have had recent contact with her. . . . By ‘we’ I mean my brother and Miss Silk who (I hope) you know is with the CGDA and quite an able assistant to Jaclyn, errr Miss Rosendahl.  And she, Jaclyn, has elected to ‘stay’ with Miss du Monde.”</strong> <br/><br/><strong>“Miss Silk has indicated to the extent proper that there ‘may’ or are transactions which have placed all in the hands of du Monde.”</strong> <br/><br/>Standing, I fold my hands, resting them as I do.  What next?<br/></span>