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Trimmer Waltz cradled the phone with his left hand. He put his right index finger along the edge of his upper lip, pushed the lip out of the way, and rubbed his finger slowly along his teeth and gums. His shallow, colorless eyes looked across the desk at the big Negro in the checked suit.
"Lovely," he said in a dead voice. "Lovely. He got away before the law jumped him. A very swell job, Rufe."