chauffeured us through the darkening city toward her apartment on Riverside Drive. She and Ted were sharing the backseat, her sore head resting on his shoulder. She'd already told us about being whacked on the noggin by person unknown at Rudy's suite and waking up thinking she might be paralyzed and blind before realizing she was bound and gagged and wearing a blindfold. "One of the bastards woke me and freed mah ankles and walked me to the upper basement, where he took the tape off mah mouth. He was surprisingly gentle about it, careful easing it off my lips. Then he released mah hands and gave me stale-tasting doughnuts and a cup of lukewarm, weak coffee." After that pathetic excuse for breakfast, she'd been placed in front of a wall where "they peeled the blindfold from mah eyes." She reached up suddenly to touch her eyes. "Damn, ah hope they didn't pull off mah eyelashes?" "Your eyelashes look beautiful," Ted reassured her. "Thank God. Well, anyway, when they took off the blindfold at first ah couldn't see much more than the bright light in mah face.
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