TWENTY-FOUR
Sparrow's fart, and it was wide awake club for both of them. Mandy could hear Jimbo downstairs, briefing Wilf on the night's events. Jimbo had remained on the scene with the harbour police. Jack tried to tell Wilf all that had happened when Mandy and he eventually returned home, well into the night, but tiredness took over as did Wilf, reassuring him he had followed events through the evening, gesturing towards the computers. “What on the washing machine” Jack had joked, but they went to bed, leaving Wilf looking for matchsticks to prop his eyelids.
Mandy and Jack had slept straight away, he lay on his back, his shoulder stiffening, Mandy snuggled into his good arm, thanking God he had taken a shower and got the harbour detritus off himself. She had poked her head into the we
