Short Mystery.
She was a brilliant girl when she was a child. One of those prodigies that no one understood back then. It was the early seventies and no one cared accept the me-generation. Not that she felt sorrow for herself but wit a sly smile she decided that she wasn’t going to go along with the usual crowd.
She decided she was going to be herself underneath a mask because that’s the way the people were going then. Hiding themselves behind masks. As she approached her young formative years she was coming out her shell but she knew that with her background she would always be a maverick because even today she knew the system wouldn’t allow her to go beyond a certain stage.
The world didn’t like prodigies but they liked mainstream yes persons. Well she wasn’t going along with the humor of the times. She was going to have two characters. The dull person and the one who like excitement. She would do so quietly because in this world no one like smart Alec they like those who go along with the flow. Well for now she would go along with the flow but she was going to enjoy the world behind the mask that everyone cultivates for themselves. Someday she would come into her own but not at the expense of the world. By day she would be this housekeeper and people would be amused at her demeanor as the perfect housekeeper. She was behind the scenes now and she could see the world without anyone observing who she really was.
The world didn’t want her to be brilliant. The world wanted her dumb, deaf and blind to the environs surrounding her world. Well as stated she wasn’t going along with it. She was going to observe and then act when the time was right. She was going to be a brilliant secret agent as she had been approached by the secret government.
Her name during the day was just plain Jane Smith but in the secret world that had approached her she would be Catherine Jean Yarton. No one knew that she had been from a brilliant family all those years ago when they left the old world. Her family had been in this country for 400 hundred years. Sometimes they were wealthy and sometimes they fell on humble times but she knew as that main ancestor of long ago some years before the Mayflower knew. Its time to leave the tyrants behind and find a new, exciting life in the new world. She would find this. For now she would go along with the men in black who had approached her because they had seen her writings that she did under her day name. They were controversial but a notch above some of the writing on the web.
She knew that the tyrants today are not different than those of old. Maybe she could help save the day in this web of intrigue that we Americans have created for ourselves in this still every young world. Jane was just considered to the—–Housekeeper. Plain old Jane knew that behind her regular glasses and her plain garb that Jane came out to play and she like this gal pal called Catherine Jean Yarton.
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