A few nights later, Diana and Atlas were having dinner at the Ingomar Club, owned by Pacific Lumber and housed in the Carter Mansion, a Queen Anne Victorian built by one of the richest lumber barons of 1885. Personally, Atlas found the grand staircase irritating, with its redwood pilasters, excessive rosettes, and balustrades. The stained-glass windows at the first landing depicting men in Renaissance clothes were garish and pretentious, while the floral brocade wallpaper was oppressive. It was a hodgepodge of turrets, gables, and corbeled porches in a confusing array of Italian, French Gothic, and Stick-Eastlake styles, not that Atlas paid much attention to those things. He was a modernist, himself. But it was the only decent place on the northern coast where he could maintain privacy and
