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“Any problem here?” asked the tall woman cop

“No problem,” said Neddie in his pitchy Nutty Neddie voice “No proble at the water Just looking at the water”

The flashlight bea for? What did they see? Had soht here? Had that witness reported hi this place to see if the killer returned?

Neddie shielded his eyes with a crooked forearm

“Just looking at the water,” he said again

The ht”

“Thanks, Officers I’ now Bye”

By the time he’d crossed back over the Eed to a ed after he’d made his kill

He’d been cheated again

“This isn’t fair,” he said to himself “Not fair at all”

CHAPTER 60

NEDDIE WAS WALKING west on Broadway, agitated,to the criotten exactly nothing for it

Now he had to take a different route ho the Transa star, he walked at a nornet of North Beach

Passing the Green Tortoise Hostel, he approached the intersection of Broadway and Colu North Beach spread out to his right

Cars sped past hihed and joked and touched and teased It was a world he wasn’t part of, but—here was a gift—he could h it unseen