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“Okay, let’s start again from the beginning. Why were you in Mulhanney’s?”

“I already told you. I wanted to get some candy.”

“Yeah, yeah, ‘candy.’ Right. How about you wanted a bottle?”

The bedraggled man in the trench coat hung his head in shame. He rubbed his hand against his beard stubble and

stared at his slight reflection in the steel table’s surface. The faint light coming through the barred windows showed

that it was nearly dawn. He looked up at the police investigator. “All right. Yeah, I wanted a drink. What about it?

It ain’t illegal.”

“No, but lying to me is.”

“Aw, jeez, no! I told ya, I didn’t kill that guy. I just went in for a drink. It was that… it was…” He

shuddered, unable to continue.

The investigator sat down on the edge of the table. “Look, we all want to go home, but we can’t till we get the

full story.

The man nodded sullenly. “Okay, I was in there when this guy come in through the back door, from the parking

lot. He looked weird, like he didn’t belong somehow. Mulhanney didn’t like him being in the store. He started yelling

for the guy to get out.

“The guy said something. I didn’t understand what, like it was another language. But Mulhanney musta known. He

went crazy. He grabbed some kind of bag or something and came out from behind the counter with a bat. I dunno what

pissed him off so bad.

“So he chases the guy out the back door. I couldn’t see them, but I could hear. It sounded…. It sounded like

an animal… and screams.”

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