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– he'd got polite, noncommittal answers. No, she'd locked his workshop and seemed to have mislaid the key. Thank you..
'Where are you staying?' said Carrot.
'Just down there.' She pointed.
'Elm Street? Not Mrs Cake's?'
'Yes. Why not? I just wanted a clean place, reasonably priced. What's wrong with that?'He'd tried to indicate as subtly as possible that a wholesale march on Quarry Lane would be frowned upon by the guard (probably from a vantage point at a safe distance) but hadn't the face to spell it out. He couldn't say: don't take matters into your own hands for the guard are mightily in pursuit of the wrongdoer, because he didn't have a clue where to start. Had your husband any enemies? Yes, someone put a huge great hole in him, but apart from that, did he have any enemies?So he'd extracted himself with as much dignity as possible, which wasn't very much, and after a battle with himself which he'd lost, he'd picked up half a bottle of Bearhugger's Old Persnickety and wandered into the night. Carrot and Angua reached the end of Gleam Street
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