The Joker in the Pack

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The Zurich-Miami Jumbo touched down at the Miami International airport at 10.35, according to schedule.

Usually Helga Rolfe enjoyed travelling V.I.P., cosseted and pampered as the wife of one of the world’s richest men, fawned over by young air hostesses, receiving a visit from the flight captain, but this time the flight had been irksome and the V.I.P. treatment irritating, for Helga had a problem on her mind, such a problem she would have welcomed solitude, welcomed not having to make brittle conversation with the flight captain who was very aware of his sexuality and who leaned over her, touching his massive moustache while he oozed charm.

It was a relief to leave the plane, to be conveyed in a Cadillac across the runway to the Miami-Nassau plane, knowing her luggage would follow, that she would be taken care of by a young eager air hostess who would guide her to her seat for the last leg of the journey where her crippled husband, Herman Rolfe, would be waiting.

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