”“What did you want to be when you grew up, Edgar?”I smiled. I think my sore foot lost all its tiredness at that moment. Here I was, walking alo...g a leafy suburban avenue towards the railway station, with a beautiful girl on one arm and the bright sun shone down on us from a cold but cloudless February sky with even some warmth in it, and I felt all right with the world.“A policeman,” I replied, my chest pumped out proud as a pigeon, “a policeman just like my father. I wanted to make people’s. I could hearher screaming and crying I looked in the room. I saw her face was redand blistering One eye must had got some water in it had gone white Iup chucked again. The screams was louder and worse I ran down stairsand call 999 police and ambulance. She was taken to Hospital I wasarrested.Well it was in the papers. It all came out how I was treated whichhelped my case. But I still was going down. Jack stood by me the goodfriend he is. I went there to court as Diana. June was in the court.She. I told Gordon where he would probably find Toliver and wished him luck. He went back to his room and came out five minutes later wearing a badge on his black leather vest, and sporting a brace of shiny Colts in a fancy fast draw holster rig. In that get up he looked anything but his normal accountant persona.When I made it to the Toro at a little after seven, the place was abuzz with the news of the arrest of Toliver down at the Nugget. According to most accounts, Toliver was with two of the. If she wasn’t here by the time I’d downed it, then that was it. Around 8.45 pm The door opened and a pretty brunette wearing a tight blue dress walked in. She looked about thirty and not in bad shape at all.As the bar was fairly empty, and I seemed to be the only person on my jack, she didn’t need to be a genius to work out who I was.“Hey, you must be Adam, so sorry I’m late, bloody babysitter is never on time. I’m Faye, lovely to meet you.”She held out her hand and I shook it, noticing her.