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Authors: Ed McBain

Tags: #General, #Fiction, #Mystery & Detective, #Police Procedural, #Police, #Police stations

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"Thank you, Hal."

Teddy came to him.
 
He put his arm
 
around her.

"Well," he said, "let's go."

They went out of the room together.

Byrnes stared after them wistfully.

"He's a good cop," he said.

"Yeah," Willis answered.

"Come on," Byrnes said, "let's go see what's brewing back at the house."

They went down into the street together.

"Want to get a paper," Byrnes said. He stopped at a newsstand and picked up a copy of Savage's tabloid. The trial news had been crowded right off the front pages. There was more important news.

The headlines simply read:

HEAT WAVE BREAKS! HAPPY DAY!

 

 

-THE END-

 

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