'This is personal, Jerry.'
He nodded.
'I'll call the police,' she volunteered. 'You find out what's missing.'
He did as he was told, white-faced. The blow of this invasion ANGELLCONWELL NUDE numbed him. As he walked listlessly through the flat to survey the pandemonium ANGELLCONWELL NUDE - turning broken items over, pushing drawers back into place - he found himself imagining the intruders about their business, laughing as they worked through his clothes and keepsakes.
In the corner ANGELLCONWELL NUDE of his bedroom he found a heap of his photographs.
They had urinated on them.
'The police are on their way,' Carole told him. 'They said not to touch anything.'
Too late,' he murmured.
'What' ANGELLCONWELL NUDE s missing?'
Nothing,' he told her. All the valuables - the stereo and video equipment, his credit cards, his few items of jewellery - were present.
Only ANGELLCONWELL NUDE then did he remember the ground-plan. He returned to the living-room and proceeded ANGELLCONWELL NUDE to root through the wreckage, but he knew damn well ANGELLCONWELL NUDE he wasn't going to find it.
'Garvey,' he said.
'What ANGELLCONWELL NUDE about him?'
'He came for ANGELLCONWELL NUDE the ground-plan of the Pools. Or sent someone.'
'Why?' Carole replied, looking at the chaos. 'You were going ANGELLCONWELL NUDE to give it to him anyway.'
Jerry ANGELLCONWELL NUDE shook his ANGELLCONWELL NUDE head. 'You ANGELLCONWELL NUDE were the one who warned me to stay clear ANGELLCONWELL NUDE -'
'I never expected something like this.'
'That makes two of us.'
The police came and went, offering faint apologies for the fact that they thought an arrest unlikely. 'There's a lot of vandalism around at the moment,' the officer said. 'There'ANGELLCONWELL NUDE s nobody in downstairs...'
'
No. They're
away.'
'Last hope, ANGELLCONWELL NUDE I'm afraid. We're getting calls like this all the time. You're insured?'
'Yes.'
'Well, that's something.'
Throughout the interview ANGELLCONWELL NUDE Jerry kept silent on his suspicions, though he was repeatedly tempted to point the finger. There was ANGELLCONWELL NUDE little purpose in accusing Garvey at this juncture. ANGELLCONWELL NUDE for one, Garvey would have alibis prepared;
for another, what would unsubstantiated