"There's not many young people who have the kind manners he has, " said neighbor Minna Casser.
No matter: Minna didn't have to see the Levee district to know what it was up to.
The other, Minna Nashef, is a previous candidate running a more low-key campaign.
Minna took charge, ordering her boy to please sit and make himself comfortable.
Minna watched a figure turn the corner of 21st Street onto Dearborn, and waited for the solemn gong of the bell.
Minna and Ada waited in the front parlor, expecting yet another newsman.
Funny thing was, Minna knew, Lottie was a college graduate who spoke five languages, and in her spare time composed music and painted portraits.
Minna invited him inside with a slow-motion sweep of her arm.
Later, as the sun deserted the sky and the streets gripped the fog, those Scarlet Sisters, Minna and Ada Everleigh, ordered his unconscious body smuggled out and planted in his home.
Her younger sister, Minna, gave a blunt, trumpet-burst laugh.
But on that fall night, as Minna Everleigh watched the reporter disappear into the murk of Dearborn Street, she did not fret about what trouble might come, or who would be behind it.
Minna navigated the silk couches, the easy chairs and the grand piano, the statues of Greek goddesses peering through exotic palms, the bronze effigies of Cupid and Psyche, the imported rugs that swallowed footsteps.
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