Ms. Amelia De’Ath does not for long endure solitude, for there is within ten or twelve minutes to be heard the tap and click of notably punctilious footsteps. These coming to a halt outside De’Ath’s door, a key scrabbles in the lock of that aperture, and Mr Helix Folt announces his return by means of —
Helix Folt, Amelia De’Ath
“The jalopy in question,” says Ms. Amelia De’Ath with an eponymous stare, “the jalopy in question is to be found in Pill.” —
Pill
There ensues, and lasts for the duration of the journey, a decidedly uncompanionable silence; although it bears remarking that this Screaming Abdab’s Cabs thug does not scruple to aim his jalopy at such bumps, potholes, and other irregularities as present themselves upon the via dolorosa betwixt Bath Buildings and Pill. The via dolorosa is at least empty thanks to the lateness of the hour, and the jalopy surprisingly swift, and Mr Helix Folt vey soon finds himself at the location specified by Ms. Amelia De’Ath. —
Bath Buildings
“So it was you,” says with an admixture of gruffness the Screaming Abdab’s Cabs thug. —
Screaming Abdab
There ensues, and lasts for the duration of the journey, a decidedly uncompanionable silence; during which it bears remarking that this Screaming Abdab’s Cabs thug does not scruple to avoid such bumps, potholes, and other irregularities as present themselves upon the via dolorosa betwixt Pill and the Screaming Abdab’s Cabs office in Grosvenor Road. The via dolorosa is at least empty thanks to the lateness of the hour, and the jalopy surprisingly swift, and Mr Helix Folt vey soon finds himself - albeit considerably shaken up - at the location specified by the Screaming Abdab’s Cabs thug. —
Grosvenor Road
“Chill,” whispers Mr Roger Buggery nastily, nastily framed in dawn’s wan light, “oh it’s you,” and just as nastily, “chill,” and with comparable nastiness, “not altogether whom I was expecting,” and finally and with the utmost nastiness, “peace.” —
Mr Roger Buggery
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