Paranoia
“Alana Jennings was a member, and according to the dossier she played here most Saturdays. I confirmed her court time by calling the day before, saying I was supposed to play her tomorrow and forgot the time, couldn’t reach her, when was that again? Easy. She had a four-thirty doubles game.Half an hour before her scheduled game I had a meeting with the club’s membership director to get a quick tour of the place. That took a little doing, because it was a private club; you couldn’t just walk in o...ff the street. I had Arnold Meacham ask Wyatt to arrange to have some rich guy, a club member—a friend of a friend of a friend, a couple of degrees removed from Wyatt—contact the club about sponsoring me. The guy was on the membership committee, and his name obviously pulled some weight at the club, because the membership director, Josh, seemed thrilled to take me around. He even gave me a guest pass for the day so I could check out the courts (clay, indoor and out), maybe pick up a game.The place was a sprawling Shingle Style mansion that looked like one of those Newport “cottages.”MoreLess
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