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the mournful churchyard, the friends gatherin the fog to mourn the dead,
and had an organ drones over thescene. The coffin has lowered into the
earth, and the sad mourners ailto even watch each other. It is
a day of troops. Quite abutcher who would have fought his half or

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so bad here red it would havethought and listened to us, old color
would be any one of us.Now, if you died of balance,
I could have understood it. Thatcock inspector's shop. He's watching you without
rat and he's showing respect of theday, like this is coming over all

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right, her color, eh inspectorsharp, happy Happy, which was a
good friend of mine. Car Off, is your figures the enemy? And
you know it? What a thingto say. If you'd killed him,
wouldn't be a bit surprised. It'sa lie if I've never done it.
I was frank, Oh, Iknow he's dead. It's natural. Dr

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Wall says so, and everything hesays is true. That's right. He
saw the city because yeah, you'vegot no grounds for suspicion. Unfortunately,
now see you're around me, Thankyou, Cardor. I'm off now,
and the op sequeeze is over.Op sequeeze is the fewer writes, there
will be so a suspicious rid bythe Yeah, you have another drop of

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bubbly color diutification this. It's notthat I wish that on any matter.
I can't say the opportunity will bemissed read nobody could say that. All
I think of the things he controlled, Eh, All the best records can
be machines that racetech cookies, protectionof clubs they do say it's got spot
of drug running. He got toobig for his boots, he did.

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Yeah, and all the mobsters inthe city will be running around like dogs
looking for a master. Hey,color you mention if I was your master,
that'll be the most read. Butyou ain't. That's right, But
I could be. I'd be governorof the whole scene. Color you used
to know butcher will you? Yeah? Our new instantly was kids kill me.

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It would be second again, Imean after but Black called Kintish check
tough in a fight? He is, is he? I wonder? Hey,

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yeah at you? Yeah, don'twant me? Just a friend?

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Yes? First? Oh ah,they're Charlie. How about that? Then

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footy snook could reap there, Charlie. And you ain't the only one either.
You mean your foot chancy mob aircould be boy and look, Butch
died from natural causes and just Jackwas shot by an unknown stator. Who
want that mob now? Eh?No, I'd rather play this game.

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Ry. Oh, we don't keepracketeering up for every boy. And that's
the mistake people make. They didn'tknow when they're bad enough. The way
I see it clean up in ayear or two goes with Bahama something like
that. What are you saying?Nobody ever quits therections? Never? Everybody

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knows too much now. They don'tquit unless they go away books inns.
He went, well, Plinty jetcamp for it all the way. Oh,
that's the signal. Must be thecops there on their way. I
don't worry, boy, they canbe on their way. They got nothing
on me. Why boy, Hello, Inspector, Katy's jet was killed last

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night. Read so I see fromthe paper, Boy, you didn't have
anything to do with it? Didyou pass or whatever? Can you mean?
Inspector, Well, we got nomotives as rackets read Read you started
something, I'm going to finish it. I want air violence in the city.
I'm a beast loving man. Inspector, you got me all wrong.

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Honest you have, mister sharp readyou will end up in jail for life
or face downwards in a gutter.And I laugh. Believe me, I
understand this. Break the peace ofthe city and you'll be destroyed. They
have a threat, inspector. Idon't have to threaten a rat, but
you your own kind of destroy you. Where did you know that Butcherncy left

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a lot of money now because eitherwouldn't touch that kind of money. Maybe
you wouldn't or couldn't that somebody elsethere was an opinion, he said to
positive box being cleaned. There hadnothing to do with it. Over fifty
thousand quid. Come with the windclassic fancy that that's right, and the

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old underworld we'll be looking for it. Ah, catch red and either heard
the butcher isn't sleeping so soundly aboutit? What do you mean they tell
me that his ghost has been seen? That's all red color. I'll tell

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you I don't feel safe even inmy own flesh. It's all nonsense.
Red. There's no distinct as aghosts. Everybody knows that. I don't
know it. I have another drink, read right, yes, I will
look. When I was in Carmore, jail. There was a ghostly cell.
The door used to swing open whenthere was nobody there. He couldn't
lock it or nothing. Yeah.I believe in ghosts, all right,

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Yeah, but not ghosts the blokeslike Butcher Hennessy I do. I tell
you, if there's ghosts of oldgeezers with their heads cut off, why
not of a smart boy like Butcher? What would you be looking for?
Red? Revenge? That's what revengefor the death of Kentish Jack Color.
Now look they say all his money'sgone where That's what I want to know.

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Who's got it? Is a lotred and the copper sharp says it's
fifty thousand quid. An mad wouldgo after that kind of money. So
where would that much money vanished?But I want to find out starting with
our late prinkin is Jack? Okay, I'm a fair cracksman. I'll say,
Charlie and we'll do Jack safe.But there's nothing there. Well,

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there may be some kind of clue. We'll try it in their Jack's places
up at the top of Eye building. I bet nobody's took it over yet.
I'll tell you what we're going todo. We climb the fire escape
and then a right, come Charlie. The fire escape was easy. Hair

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will shot up and follow me andgot your gun fit right here, d
I've got the talks and tools tolop. Okay, now for the safe.

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Oh right, we're almost to by. It was easy to clear there.

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Let's have a look inside that youcome on here, we are nothing.
Huh can you beat it? Nota thing? Well, I didn't
expect the cash. But isn't thissomething a clue? But the ant's not

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something thing. It's there. It'sonly a roll for Hennessy's voice to it
anywhere. But come out and showyourself. Yeah, wanried boy, Well
but look I had nothing to dowith you again, honestly? Is he

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rape shine? Your torture? There? Are you looking for something? Boys?
It is again? That voice iscoming from the next blue metal.
The skylight's open. It will soonfind out nobody there. Come on quick
as you like. We'll soon findout if he's a ghost. She's been

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away, Charlie boy, he ain'ta ghost, that's for sure. But
if then makes sense, you soulin burried hold doc more signed the certificates
right, and what I want tonotice this? Who was in that coffin?
I saw Betty the other day,and there's only one way to find
that out. I mean, alook, that's just what I mean.
We'll have to dig up that coffintomorrow night. Let's get out of here

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before we get pitched. I don'tlike it, Red, that was a
lovely shot, Charlie. No,I don't mean that. I mean we're
digging up that corpse. It's abad thing to do, disturbing corpses.

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Any better suggestions now, I supposenot? Then play a shot like a
good look boy and lead the thinkingto me? Will you? I don't
feel like playing read go on?You think I like waiting that whole day?
I'm scared ten when I'm scared too. I don't like goats and never
did. I need to get holdof the rackets, and nothing's going to
stop me, human or inhuman?Who you're the boss? Because I think

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that's why? Which is alive?Get it? He's no ghost? Why
pretend he's days? Look, yousaid a true word the other day,
Charlie. You said villains like usnever leave the records because nobody will let
them. And suppose butchers you wantsto be the first man to walk out.
You've got it on you rate,say, Butcher pretundity was dead that

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way it's in the care. Yeah, well then who was in the coffee?
You shall buried? The money child, the lovely money we want to
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will live. I wonder what theyoungsters will find in the coffin. Treasure
hunting in graves can be very dangerous. You never, let's find out what
the polly swamped with, Charlie andRed Cheffy. I bet it's a copper

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sharp? Well, was no lovelyshot? Why boys, inspector, why
if it isn't mister sharp? Someonebroke into a safe last night? I
thought you'd like to know. Well, I never the things people do for
a few quid. The robbers arearmed and fired a gun at somebody or
something. That's a serious, childsaid, is isn't it? Inspector?

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You wouldn't arnything about it, wouldyou me? But I was home all
evening? It wasn't i, Charlie? Oh, yes, we was at
home anybody, mister Sharp this time. But I don't like guns, and
I don't like safe breakers, andI didn't tell you that. Both you
boys are in serious trouble. MisterSharp. We can't be in much more
trouble? Can we ask for genes? He ought to know? No,

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he's dating mister Sharp. Yeah.Do you believe in ghost Jarli paradex for
kids? Inspector? Well, thewhisper's gone around, the Butcher's come back
from the dead. The new Fellasdon't believe in ghosts, do you?
So that's all right? Oh youdon't believe in ghosts, do you,
mister Sharpe. I don't know,Charlie, I don't know. I didn't

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once enjoy your game. Well he'sgone fast enough. You got to use
your head in this record. Thepoint is why did he come here?
What's he after us? He'd givegood money to put us in jail.
Well, I'll tell you what Ithink. He came here to reckless act

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as if nothing happened. Look,I'm going to see Carla and we'll meet
tonight. Okay, yeah, okay, Yeah. I wish it was all
over, Red, I'd rather facea squad of cops the that graveyard tonight.

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Hi, Carla, how's the girlall right? Red? Lock a
drink? Yeah, thanks kidd.Anyone being along, so sit down and
releass Yeah. I thought that someof them nosy coppers might have been along.
Let's inspector sharp. Somebody liked that. Now I'm Red, you're just
champy. I keep thinking of Penancy. I see him in the streak everywhere,

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and you turn around and he isn'tthere. How could you see?
Butch we saw him buried. I'mnot so sure that's the end of him.
Look, if you're safe up herein this drop of letts, if
you lock the kitchen door, noone can get him by the fire escape
that leaves the front door. Andhave you put the chain on it.
You have got it, Bed.Oh now I'm not coming here silly?

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Yeah, well maybe, but bettersafe than sorry. Yeah, you see
if Butcher's alive. You might comeafter you. Yeah, I suppose you're
right. But what's that cat?The wind? Anything? That noise came
from the bedroom? Nobody could bein there. Nobody. It's Butcher.

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He's in the bedroom. Well,I'm going to see nobody there yet come
out of there? Why I shouldlook under the bed. I'm sorry,
Calor, I'm jumping. That's alllike it has spawned? True? Didn't
you hear a laugh? Of coursenot. I've thought I heard of Bama.

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Well let's go back to the livingroom. Okay, Red, I
see Butcher everywhere. Well I don'tsee him. I am. If you
ain't a ghost, he's mud youlike one. I didn't hear anything.
Anyway, I'm going to settle thisone way or the other. Tonight,
Charlie's coming with me and we'll digup Butcher's grave. I reckon the money?

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Is there? The money? Yeah? The color. I'm going to
spend all the day with out ofency's way. See, there's something you
can do for me, anything atall. Read you know that. Take
this gun and digit the clip,ammunition and everything. It's the gun I
used to kill Kinder's Jack. Andit's too hard to carry. Understand whatever

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you say, Red Good, I'vegot a sort of feeding that something's going
to happen. I'll get picked upwith something, so drop it in the
river. Sure read, I'll putthe gun where no one will ever find
it. Where will you spend theday where no one will ever find me?
Kid? Better art gallery? SoI love well, I'm dreamboat butch

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but come out now he's gone,thanks, Carla. Oh, it's a
bit clump to that wardrobe. Ican know that was the anyway. I
didn't expect him today. If youhad found me, it would have meant
to show down here. You makea lassy case. No, I don't

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know, I grow and crackle veryconvincingly, Carla. That poor boyo.
He doesn't know if I'm dead oralive. And I've been seeing too much
food. But genises a chap.People don't forgetting Harry. I've still got
a fixed up, Karla. I'mdead. We pick up that money from

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the graveyard and scram the both ofus, just you and me. Sure
need these boyos to look for theghost. I'll quit the rackets, come
with the overseas, and your lifeis waiting for us. I'll invest in
legitimate business. OOKI sounds wonderful,But what are the money in your coffin
in the first place? That makessense? Don't you see? It's in

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cash, small notes, negotiable currency. They racketeer and the place was after
it. I had to hide itsomewhere. Remember what happened to poor Kent
this Jackson? That's right? Didyou square? Doctor mos? Sure he's
showed the death certificate for money?Molly the undertaker two? We worked for

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money, No, Carla, I'vebeen seen around what people think of a
ghost. I'm the first man tobreak clean as a house truth with the
rats. You make it sound wonderful, but if it stays that way,
I swear that will. Everything's fixed. All we have to do is go
to the grave and dig up thatcoffin. But we better be fast as
your cousin Red's got the same idea, has he? Now? I wonder

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what I'd do without you? Baby? This is the place? Read?

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Sure I understand what we do.We're getting that graveyard and start digging.
Yeah, I'm with you. Readbut those there for certain? All right?
That's it? Are you sure?Read certain? That's I'm buried there?
Didn't I at least I saw somethingburied there in this grave. Besides

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top of the earth, it's justbeing turned over. Yeah, that's right,
it's all loose. Let's start digging. Now, come on, put
your back into it. Yea,when I am trying, mate, what
was that? It was an lread, that's all. But I don't
like ours. I don't like thisplace. I don't like any of it.

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It sill is wrong with me somewhere. What you mean, Red,
I don't know something creepy. Thereis something wrong. This earth shovels too
easy. Yeah, well we'll soonknow one way or the other. That's
the coffee and I'm mixed to eatout. I reckon that will do it.

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Take a spade and leave up thelid. There's unfortunate in this for
us. Yeah, Johnny, uh, let's see it. But what is
it? Reads? Take a look. It's Fortunity's corpse. That's who's that?

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Carla? She shot him the money. We shouldn't have come. I
told you the old thing's crazy.Carla. When I what are you done
with the money? The money?But you don't there not a ship,
Carla. I'll get you to gothere, attack you the ti. We

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got you into the sills at lastyear. Yeah, we're poor. We
was found dropping a grape. Sowhat a lot of explained to the grave
of a criminal who was supposed tohave died four days ago. Our police
surgeon says, inner, he hasbeen dead for less than six hours.
I never shot him. It wasCarlie. You heard us. She was
at the grape. I argue methat we've got the automatic farm by the
grave side of the fingerprints on it. It was slave. Your breath had
tell it to the judge. Look, you know she was by the grave.

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You must have been following her fordays. Otherwise how would you have
been by the grave side? Itold her everything. Now you're trying to
frame me for shooting Butcher. You'rewrong. Red Carlo's confesster shooting Butcher.
We are holding you on a chargeof murdering Kenty's Jack, otherwise known as
John Garcid. I'll be seeing you, rotten tify, got it, gain

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your dead this time I saw yourcorpse this time. You must be a
real well well well, how confusingfor poor Red and his friend Charlie.

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However, the confusion will soon beresolved after they pay the penalty. Once
they've made the big drop. Thefour of them, Kinti's Jack colors,
Red and Charlie will always be meetinghere behind the Creaking Door moves in world.

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