The Garden Party
The Garden Party Mr. Smith had been planning this party for nearly a month. In some ways he’d say he’d been planning it for years. He had invited his closest friends, there would be no business at this gathering, plenty of other parties for that. Today was for fun. The location was meticulously arranged. A wide swath of white flagstones fanned out from the sliding glass doors at the rear of the house. A small stand of trees, meticulously groomed to look like they were not...