I didn’t find anything that makes me feel there was something to learn about all this.’ ‘Why are you asking about the pump then?’ ‘It was just something recent on his computer,’ I lied. ‘Did he say where it was?’ ‘No. But he ordered some parts through one of my accounts.’ So he was trying to get it working. ‘And all that bloody water pipe.’ ‘What water pipe?’ ‘Mile and miles of three-quarter inch standard drinking water pipe. Christ knows what he wanted that lot for. I thought he’d made a mistake with the order quantity at first but he said it was right.’ ‘Where is it now?’ But even as I was asking the question I realised I knew the answer. I’d been locked up with a lot of it for a night. He seemed not to have heard me. ‘That’ll have to go back.’ Then to me, ‘What was he up to?’ I didn’t know and so I didn’t have to lie to his face. I told him I was going to try to find that out and when I did, he’d be the first to know.
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