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Is this about Benny?focus fast Two stinging slaps on both cheeks broughtyou" His voice was cal that bitch Merodie Davies no more"

Merodie? Who’sOh, her

"Do you understand?"

Understand?

"Nod your head if you understand"

I nodded

"Don’t ht have nodded so hi words See you later, alligator After a while, crocodile He was there and then he wasn’t there Maybe he left an instant ago Maybe an hour It was hard to tell Possibly I had lost consciousness and that’s why I had no sense of ti "What a Wonderful World"? Wait, that was Louis Arly difficult to see, and for a panickedwithdusk I wanted to stand and kneas going to hurt, so I tookthe car door, lifted h to fall onto my car seat A tsunaged my knees until the convulsions subsided, proud that I kept the contents of ht behind my eyes faded to a dull amber Iseeh if I were a used car, they’d havein my ears becahts again

He wasn’t so tough, I told ered my jaw, satisfied that it was still in one piece Bobby Dunston’s girls can hit harder

Yeah, right What was all that about, anyway?

Merodie Someone wants you to lay off Merodie

Merodie?

The man said, "I told the lawyer and now"

"G K!"

The notebook I was using for the Merodie Davies investigation was in es was the business card Genevieve Bonalay had given me I dialed the hos a voice e kicked in