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"You got suckered," soht, too," Curran said "Turns out I suckered thehed
"You need to have your head exanored her "I’ I’ve been there and done that I have a family now and I’m here for only one reason I’ic words They were listening now
"When I hire someone, I look at the tools of his trade and his place of work If I aanized and her tools to be in good repair If I a a killer, I want to know he has respect for his job and his weapon Look around you There is garbage on the floor Dirt Old food The place doesn’t sood and looks worse"
Thethe Guild for the first tiht now and saw this, I wouldn’t hire us We look weak We look sloppy" Curran shook his head "Judging by this place, you could never tell that this is a guild of skilled tradesmen Because that’s what you are You put your life on the line every day to make a buck and to help people Not every Joe Blow can do this job This is just as uild, except that when aout or the building looking crooked, people die"
They were hanging on his every word now
"You deserve better than to co in, we’ll hire janitors and we’ll pay them well, because we’ll have the money to spare But for soh the front door without gagging Besides, that’s my kid over there" He nodded at Julie "I don’t want her to think that I work in a duet off my ass and clean this place up If you are too well bred to take pride in this place or if you are too scared of dirt, I don’t mind Go sit out of the ith the rest of the special snowflakes"
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FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER I stood next to the Clerk as he pulled the list of Eduardo’s jobs I was feeling light-headed My left side itched all over But if these were the worst side effects I got, I would be thrilled
The Guild had turned into a bustling hive Trash was being swept, debris was being shoveled into wheelbarrows and, across the floor, Curran single-handedly picked up huge chunks of brickwork that had fallen off the walls and carried the" The Clerk handed me a handwritten list
I scanned it Routine, routine, routineNothing even re in that particular subdivision This looked like a dead endEduardo had worked a lot in these feeeks Did he ever sleep?
Wait
I pointed to an entry on the fifth of February "It says here he declined a gig"
Clerk checked the list "I re, ca wasn’t unheard of, but once you co, you had to do it, so the Guild allowed only three dropped gigs per year This was a blue gig too, which uard detail, VIP client Rose ith him on it I did the intervieith her afterward for the liability and evaluation, and she said that everything was fine until Eduardo saw a neighbor come home Hold onI don’t reh another book "There ‘A e fralasses’"
I’d beta breathtaking black Arabian horse’"
"Arabian?" That by itself didn’t
"Yes Rose knows her horses She went on for about five ood that horse was Let’s see, Rose ‘oes a million-dollar horse" Eduardo looked at the nized Eduardo and called hiot his gear, and left The man watched him leave but didn’t interfere’ The end"
Hello, Eduardo’s stalker
The Clerk looked up "He ca, and took another one I told hiet into and he said it was personal"