RANSVESTIA

and Greg to use that same greed and selfishness to bring the crooks their just deserts."

"Turn that office on the fifty-eighth floor into the last act of a cir- cular Greek tragedy?"

"That's the ticket," Arnie said, snapping his fingers at the thought of the theatrical metaphor. "Fate, the infernal machine, brings the usurpers to their richly deserved ends. Fate with a little help from you. The two of you can do it. Greg has the sort of mind that could construct a perfect plot for revenge and Bobbie has the bravado to pull it off."

Something clicked in my head. Arnie could see the conspiratorial glint in my eye and smiled.

"That's the ticket," he said. "That's my Bobbie."

After dinner Arnie and I walked slowly back to my apartment. Even though I was ready for Greg and Bobbie to link up I still had to come up with a suitable plan for revenge. Of course I had no wish to really hurt either Betty or her Creep. I just didn't want them to profit from my work.

We walked slowly along Lexington Avenue without saying much. Slowly Arnie put his arm around my shoulder. It felt nice to recognize in me the twin desires that are in everyone, the desires to be protected as well as to protect. Arnie was right in saying that I was two separate people as well as being one. As Greg I could walk down this same avenue with my arm around a girl. Softly surrounding her and protec- ting her. But just as I needed to be with a woman in that fashion, so too I needed to be a woman and feel that same security. The two sides of the coin, the protector and the protected. Greg and Bobbie, combined to make one complete me. I sighed and put my arm around Arnie's waist. At the restaurant Arnie had picked up the check. I'd have to remember to give him the money for my half.

Once Arnie had left me off at the apartment I got ready for bed by slipping into my lacy white baby doll pajamas. In bed with the lights off I started thinking about just what my seeking revenge would entail.

I knew I didn't want to really do grievous harm to anybody. I just