"Linda Benton." Well, Miss Benton, I assure you, I can help you find whatever you mayneed." Oh, great!" Henry gushed. "That will make all this a whole... lot easier." May I ask what you mean by 'all this'?" Mrs. Curtis inquired."You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you!" Henry laughed. "Let'sjust say that I am in the middle of a big change and find myself withoutproper clothing."The saleswoman's eyes squinted wryly. "That sounds interesting." Shechanged the subject to the task at hand.. " Do you really have baloney mister. I haven't had any baloney sandwiches in a long time. I'd really like that," he said."Well, Jane and Karen have a lot of baloney and if you ask them nice I'm sure they'll make you all the sandwiches you want. Do you want to go ask them?" I sure would mister and I'll be very nice, I promise," he said."I'll go see if they have time now and I'll come back and take you to see them if they do," I said, and walked to the trailer.Carl, Casey, Jane, and Karen were. "What's going on here?" insisted the reporter, as she closed in on Gail. "What's this all about? Why are you protecting that man and these women?" Listen, I'm not involved," Gail insisted, not very convincingly, as her eyes starting darting around, looking for some gracious way out of this predicament. She'd allowed everyone else to escape, but now she was stuck on camera as a representative of the city's finest. "I just—" Right, and you just happen to be here, ready to step in at the first. How to dispose of this body, in a city like this? The others have been left to rot on the streets, to get robbed and stripped by urchins, but that was a mistake, as it drew more Sparrows. Let’s do something with this corpse before it stinks,” I warned the ladies (not that others would consider them that, but I wasn’t partial to such distinctions).“Let’s salt him, skin him, dismember him, and cook him for supper. I know that sounds disgusting, but hear me out. We could use a good meal, all of.
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