‘I don’t know what to do, Mom,’ she said, dispiritedly. ‘He took everything. He quit his job and just took off with everything. No one knows w...ere he went.’ Then her voice took on a bitter tone. ‘What everyone knows is who he ran off with. Why couldn’t they have bothered to tell me before he left me like this?’ Smothering a dark and knowing smile, I slipped back into the bathroom. I listened to her through the barely open door. I could have told her some places to call to get help, but she. But Jack would…I was standing in the hallway when he arrived, putting away some files he’d used the previous day. He eyed me with a mixture of disapproval and excitement. I knew what was coming.Sure enough, a few minutes after I got back to my desk I heard his familiar call, “Adrienne, can you come in here?” Excited, I walked into his office.“Shut the door behind you.”He was standing in front of his desk, leaning back on it with his arms crossed. He had that far-off look of concentration he had. She had married six years ago, and had two boys. He joined the air force as a clerk and had to move two times in four years. Last summer, Nancy had called and told me hubby had confessed to having an affair. A week later, she called back and told me she had decided to give him another chance. I can still remember as kids she being three years older than me - we were playing on a old homemade swing. The wind was catching her dress and blowing it wide allowing me to see up to her panties and. Are you held up somewhere?" In the casino. Where?" I turned and started quickly walking farther into the casino, looking around for my mythical girlfriend, while asking her for directions on the phone.#1: #2: #3: #3: #2: I turned to the neighbor I considered the most sensible. That he was waving his arms around and screaming was not encouraging.I got his attention, then asked, "Betting on a street is three consecutive numbers, right? Like 1, 2, 3." Yeah." Do they all pay the same? Does it.