“Do you think they'll mind me hanging around?” he asked, wondering if he'd find the opportunity to hang himself whist he was around.
“Of course not,” said Zoltan cheerily, moving away from the bed whilst surreptitiously crossing his fingers behind his back. “It'll be a nice change for them having a new face about the place. Leave it with me.”
As Dr. Zoltan and Nurse Parsnip walked away, Mandrake rested his head on his pillow and smiled as he looked up at the ceiling, all thoughts of suicide very much in the forefront of his mind (Oh come on. This isn't a Disney story).
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Constable Gullett took a set of keys the size of a very large set of keys off his hip and clanged them along the bars of the cell. It was extremely loud and sounded like someone had dropped King Kong's cutlery onto
