Good People
“It was small, a converted double shopfront with a central door, both windows taken up with product ads and display shots of the shiny heads of sultry models who had probably never breathed the air west of Chiswick, never mind Dinas. Over the front, a sign in purple cursive script against a white background read a cut above.
I parked diagonally opposite, where I could monitor the comings and goings without being obvious.
On my way from Lisa Morris’s, I had put a call in to the children’s home in... Manchester to see if they had any information on the whereabouts of Donna and Colette. They stonewalled me. They informed me that they could do nothing over the telephone and that any request for information on any of their charges, past or present, should be sent in writing on official notepaper with a verifiable contact name, telephone number and a personal endorsement from God. Laudable, I suppose, given the present climate, but a bitch so far as sleuthing and spontaneity were concerned.
‘Do you still send kids to Dinas?’ I had asked after this exchange, pretending it was a jaunty afterthought.MoreLess
I parked diagonally opposite, where I could monitor the comings and goings without being obvious.
On my way from Lisa Morris’s, I had put a call in to the children’s home in... Manchester to see if they had any information on the whereabouts of Donna and Colette. They stonewalled me. They informed me that they could do nothing over the telephone and that any request for information on any of their charges, past or present, should be sent in writing on official notepaper with a verifiable contact name, telephone number and a personal endorsement from God. Laudable, I suppose, given the present climate, but a bitch so far as sleuthing and spontaneity were concerned.
‘Do you still send kids to Dinas?’ I had asked after this exchange, pretending it was a jaunty afterthought.MoreLess
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