Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grisou is really Guimbeau's cat. The Marquis Georges de Visdelou-Guimbeau is Freddy's boyhood friend from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The night of the murder Freddy and Guimbeau gave a party for friends (Nancy was in Maine with her mother). Afterwards Freddy drove two wives of R.A.F. pilots home and, he says, went to bed. This was just after 1. At 3 Guimbeau drove his friend Betty Roberts home, returning 15 minutes later to find Freddy having trouble with Grisou, who would not let him sleep. Guimbeau put Grisou out and went...
...Mother Sousa. Though she lay in bed most of the time, garbed in a tattered blue kimono, Mrs. Sousa nourished a secret passion for efficiency. Incapable of keeping the house clean, she never failed to mark letters to local stores AIR MAIL. Her favorite recreation: brooding over her own canceled checks. Her conviction: that hired help led lives that "were pretty drab and needed brightening." So hired help always left the Sousa home stewed to the gills...
...What's he doing. . . ?' asked my mother suspiciously...
...What?' screamed my mother...
...Instantly the sky blazed with flame. My father . . . fired and reloaded and fired again. . . . My mother . . . screamed frantically." Dropping his empty gun, father leaped into a police car, "zigzagged wildly from curb to curb" in hot pursuit. The screaming made Mrs. Sousa tense, as she lay in bed drinking bottled beer. Father tossed the captured children on to the grass "as if they were bags of mail." "These kids ought to be in Sing Sing," he snarled. "Won't you children come in for a little ice cream?" called Mrs. Sousa from her window...