Without any questions, Melrose took out his money clip, peeled off four twenties, and handed them over.
“ . . . Now that Molly’s gone and left me
Here for to die.”
Macalvie walked over to the bar where Freddie was singing along and spread a hundred and thirty pounds in front of her.
“Oh, the left side of me heart
Is as weak as watered gruel, man;
Won’t ye come to me wake
when I make that great meander, man. . . ?”
Freddie, watching him, shouted, “ ’Ere, Mac, wot be yu on upon?”
Macalvie had already positioned himself, taken aim and shoved his size ten straight into the jukebox.
The song splintered like a broken windscreen, flying into pieces, shivers of metal and glass. It caught the entire room in a freeze-frame. No one moved
Except Macalvie, who walked back to his chair and snatched up his coat. He looked around the table and said, “Macalvie, nil. Mulvanney, nil.”
Then he turned with his coat slung over his shoulder and walked out into the dark where, not far away, the prison rose through the mists of Dartmoor and hung over Princetown like a huge raven
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