Chapter Twenty-Two
Rafferty’s brothers, Mickey and Patrick Sean, were more than willing to accompany Cyrus, Louis and himself on a pub-crawl. To his surprise, so was Nigel.
‘I’ve been working hard,’ his cousin told Rafferty when he rang him, ‘selling houses and making money. It can get tiring.’ Poor diddum’s thought Rafferty. He doubted his cousin knew what a hard day’s work was. ‘I could do with a good night out.’
‘I thought you were out most nights of the week.’
‘I am, dear boy,’ Nigel said in his usual patronising manner. ‘But those nights are with assorted lady friends or clients. Doesn’t do in either case to drink more than a couple. With the clients it’s necessary to keep one’s wits about one and with the ladies it’s necessary to keep one’s pecker up rather than suffering from br
