Название: The Last Cut
Автор: Michael Pearce
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780007400300
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‘I know, I know!’
‘I mean, you could so easily have seen him. It must have taken him some time to make that hole –’
‘Ah, no, it wasn’t like that. I mean, they don’t work like that. Not lizard men.’
‘They don’t?’
‘No. They don’t do it themselves, they get men to do it for them. That’s why you don’t see them. And that’s the way it was here. The wood wasn’t gnawed, was it? It was cut. If a lizard man had done it himself, it would have been gnawed. You don’t see lizard men with tools, do you?’
‘Well, no –’
‘No. He got someone to do it for him. Someone who had the tools. Then he came along afterwards, wriggled through the hole, took what he wanted and then was on his way.’
‘Well. I still think you were lucky. Because you could so easily have seen him at that point, couldn’t you?’
‘Yes, but I try to take care. I mean, that’s always the risk in a job like mine. You’ve got to be careful you don’t see too much. If you just go blundering around, you can easily walk into something, and then, bang! The next minute you’re in trouble.’
‘So what do you do?’
‘I creep. Then if you come across something, if you see something, or, more likely, hear something, like that night –’
‘So you did see him?’
‘No, no. like I said, you don’t see them. They get someone to do it for them.’
‘Ah, so that was the one you saw?’
‘I didn’t see anyone. But –’ the ghaffir lowered his voice – ‘I knew he’d been there.’
‘Well, the hole, of course –’
‘No, no, not that.’
‘How, then?’
The ghaffir laid his finger along his nose.
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