Total needed to buy tinnie and repay Tearley: $825 We’ve lost any chance of getting the tinnie. When I got to the top of View Street no one was there, even though it was 9.00 am exactly. We’d arranged to meet then and go down to the river together. Wrigs turned up five minutes later. He’d slept in. We waited and waited for Tearley. She finally turned up at 9.34. ‘Where have you been?’ I said. ‘Violin lesson.’ Violin lesson. Who does violin lessons? In the holidays. We went down to the deserted house and checked the memory card from the camera. There was still nothing on it. When we got back onto View Street, I said to Tearley, ‘I told you that camera’s not working. I reckon we take it back to the shop.’ ‘No, we can’t. It’s got paint all over it,’ she said. ‘We’ll have to test the sensor out. Someone needs to go down to the house at night and stand in front of the camera in the dark. If it doesn’t take a picture then we know it’s broken.’ ‘Bags not me,’ said Wrigs.
