8. DARK SECRET

1.8 DARK SECRET

". . . he deluded himself that his fancee' would never find out his dark secret."

The truth was that Emily Adams had long suspected that her attorney fiance' Jack Sims had an office supply problem. She first became suspicious when he began to visit office supply stores every night. She suspected that he was sniffing glue until he came home last week with a nasty, deep paper cut in his nose from sniffing reams of paper. A quick call to the local bar associati\on revealed that this was not an unheard-of addiction; they then warned her that she hould be alert to his habits. Usually, the next step in the process was undetected paper consumption. The only known remedy was to hold an in interventionhe with his friends, loved ones, and business associates.

Emily knew that Jack would never consent to any sort of intervention. An insanely private person, he alwaysinsisted on dressing as though he had to appear in court, required her to wear the most expensive and well-known, recognizable colognes, and was almost obsessive about having even his Haynes briefs personally monogramed by his private tailor. A real blue-blood wannabee, he was notorious for having raving vocal tantrums at all of the four-star restaurnts in Little Rock, where the couple lived.

The very evening of Emily's discovery



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