The Macguffin (2010)
“You know that, don’t you? I’m rubbing it in. I come, uninvited, to your apartment on a day you’re off duty. I seem to interrupt you at a time when you’re about to go out. And then, because I’ve apparently nothing better to do, I proceed to abuse you by pretending I’m drunk.”
“Strictly speaking, sir, I’m an officer of the law. I’m never off duty.”
“You’ve no shame, have you?”
“What would I be ashamed of?”
Druff studied the man, a fellow he knew to be his own age. Up there. An AARP card in his wa...llet. No doppelgänger, no alter ego. Just a humorless, unattractive, bachelor, jokey sort of man. “Well,” Druff said, “there’s been some talk.”
“Talk, Commissioner?”
“Not so much talk as rumor, chitchat, idle gossip.”
“What is it that’s said?”
Druff, slumped in the chair, straightened up. “I’m no tale-bearer, sir,” he said.
And then was talking away, spilling the beans. A mile a minute. But not about Doug, about the other one, dark Dick.MoreLess
“Strictly speaking, sir, I’m an officer of the law. I’m never off duty.”
“You’ve no shame, have you?”
“What would I be ashamed of?”
Druff studied the man, a fellow he knew to be his own age. Up there. An AARP card in his wa...llet. No doppelgänger, no alter ego. Just a humorless, unattractive, bachelor, jokey sort of man. “Well,” Druff said, “there’s been some talk.”
“Talk, Commissioner?”
“Not so much talk as rumor, chitchat, idle gossip.”
“What is it that’s said?”
Druff, slumped in the chair, straightened up. “I’m no tale-bearer, sir,” he said.
And then was talking away, spilling the beans. A mile a minute. But not about Doug, about the other one, dark Dick.MoreLess
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