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Mister Judd… Dead… Probably… Saul Judd… Hopefully not… Difficult to find… Chas Hodge… Similarly… What did Bob say… About Chas… Employed both him… And Malc… Didn’t know that… About Malc… Certainly… As key men… There’s a corporate term… If ever there was one… Better than… Go to person… Infinitely… Key men… Tapped by the fly by nights… Wrong person to ask… Bob became a copper… Nothing to do with the alloy… If it is an alloy… Copping… Is nabbing… And transporting to the Nick… Was that… An attempted masonic handshake?… You never know.
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Old Nick… Didn’t take long to get there… Can’t remember the name of the arcade… Remember the smell… Place where Bill Bellshank… Got copped by a key man… Before Chas’s day… Funny how things turn out… Roughed around a bit… In the back room… And released… Little difference in approach… These days… Between those on either side of the law… Just up from the burnt donuts stand… Bill showed me… Across from the station… And the courts… Next door… In those days… Made sense then… Not any more… Like milk-floats… And recycled glass milk bottles.
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Can’t remember the name of the Stoneyhurst guy… Turned him into a rebel… The only person who could help… Would be Stan… Bob saw Stan… Recently… Stan lent me…. The Stand… Still a hermit crab then… And just after… Jay-Kay with… Illusions… Forgot it came from Jay-Kay… That helped a lot… And Jed was around then too… Chas was driving a taxi… Started writing a book with Chas first… Then Jed… Chas writing between jobs… Parked alongside the bank which became a pub… Should have known from that… The banks were no good… Tufty took us to that bank too… He didn’t have a clue.
France & Vincent 