THE Brian Jones

Sep 03 2010

The Red Right Hand

[…H]is other arm, in dove-gray gabardine of rippling sheen, [was] lying along the top of the cushions back of her shoulders, a touch of white silk shirt cuff at his wrist, of gold love-knot cuff link, and his massive carved antique gold Florentine ring on his hand.

No, he always wore his Borgia poison ring on his right hand, of course. The ring was on his hand that was holding down his Panama. It was the one thing that wasn’t found. But he did have a right hand. It was the one he wore his ring on. He was holding down his hat with it.

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