Smithereens Press Chapbooks 'Zero at the Bone' by David Wheatley | Page 55

MCDONALD
I mean, just think of the price...
MCALLISTER
Of icing sugar? Talk sense, man. No one
saw me. There was no one around.
MCDONALD
You think.
They’ll sniff foul play. You’ll end up in the drink
before they’re finished.
MCALLISTER
Who they? Our shifty friend?
I don’t see him around.
MCDONALD
[Vehement.] Isn’t it time
you joined some dots? Perdue doesn’t arrive,
this guy turns up, what do you think’s going on?
MCALLISTER
My faith in humanity’s going, going gone.
MCDONALD
Wake the fuck up!
MCALLISTER
Still I’m not quite as dumb
as you assume.
MCDONALD
They’re going to sniff a catspaw.
I’d say it’s getting on for time to leave.
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