”The others held back as Al and Betty approached the small repair shop. Al assumed the couple lived upstairs. Delilah and Gary stationed themselves ...n the front where they could survey anyone approaching. A bell rang as they entered. As they waited, they examined the shop filled with knickknacks. There were hundreds of clocks of all shapes and sizes, plenty of electronics, along with quite a few major appliances. Before long, a young man entered from a back room.“Can I help you?” The sides of. "Who is this Thomas?" I asked indicating the other man."He be my brother," he replied."Has he a job?" Not at the present, not tilt harvest starts, or the fruit picking season starts." Well I would like to employ the both of you for a job of watching a warehouse. If everything goes well, I will let you off with what you owe me." I took two single shillings and handed one to each. "Now I want you to watch the warehouse of Mr Montgomery and tell me everyone who comes or goes. Day and night, I will. As the game begins two guys sit in front of us, both of them start turning to look at you so I have you raise your skirt up enough to make it interesting. During the first period of the game guys are bouncing up and down and I notice the one in front of you begins to lean back against your legs. You look at me and smile, I think we have found our two guys for you. At the end of the first period, they get up and ask if they can get us anything from the concession stand, one of them notices you. I'm looking for my daughter, Nykki." He gave me the kind of look most frequently used by policemen when a man wearing a mask and holding a gun and a overstuffed bag runs out of a bank and into their midst. "You just get out of bed?"I stroked my unshaven chin with a thumb-and-forefinger pinch and looked down past a recent pizza sauce stain on my robe to bare legs and feet scarred by multiple accidents while playing mumbletypeg as a teenager. My breath was worse than an armadillo that had lost a.