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“TELL ME,” SAYS the French?”

He’s fucking with me He knows the answer, but he wants toconfession

“I don’t know What time is it?”

“That long, then?”

I shrug

Vidocq and I are in a very dark rooe house full of very fashionable furniture and we’re stealing so very valuable I have no idea what and prettysome crimes with the old man Crily decapitated

“It’s been a while,” I say “Six Eight weeks Somewhere around there”

I slipped us into the house through a shadow Vidocq is working on the wall safe He’s good with safes He’s had over a hundred years of practice

“So, no crusades? No great wrongs that need to be righted?”

I reach into ht be smoke alarms

“Nothing worth killing for I’m no cop The Sub Rosa has their own Mod Squad to deal with the small stuff”

I like watching Vidocq work over a safe He has hands like a surgeon Ni shot out of a cannon

“Incroyable Perhaps you’re reaching soelic half and it’s having aeffect on your disposition”

Right I’reat A halo and five bucks will get you a cup of coffee in LA

“Maybe The angel screaht when I’m tired and he can aie-bacon serle-handed anymore We reached a kind of MAD pact the other day”