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‘What is the purpose of your trip, and how long will you be in Manchester?’

‘I’ll be visiting the university, and hope to go there and back on the same day’

‘Then you’ll have to catch the 742 from Euston, and the last train back on a weekday is the 1043 If you ht on a bench on platform twelve You are entitled to one hty, which you can claim on your duty sheet 232, but I’ll require a receipt’ Mrs Walters began to write out a train warrant for Manchester Piccadilly ‘If you’re going to the university, you’ll have to catch the 147 bus You’ll also need an umbrella’

‘An umbrella?’

‘You’ve obviously never been to Manchester before’

‘Goodwoman who met him at the front desk ‘I’m Melanie Clore How can I help you?’

‘You have a sale co up on July the seventeenth—’

‘Which lot number do you want us to withdraw?’

‘How could you possibly know—’

‘The police don’t visit Sotheby’s to put so up for sale’

Williaht back on the Apollo 11 ’

Miss Clore checked the catalogue ‘Offered to us by a Dr Keith Talbot, who produced a will to confirm that the moon dust had been left to him’

‘The A ownership and say they will sue everybody in sight if you go ahead with the sale’

‘And ouldn’t want that, would we, Mr Warwick?’

‘It wouldn’t worry ht Dr Talbot had the law on his side’