‘Yeah,’ Dal as said. ‘They’re just carrying Baird out. The crowd’s get ing a big bang out of it.’ He opened the booth door so he could watch the stretcher being carried into the street. ‘Funny how people like to gape at a corpse. I believe he was really fond of that girl.’
‘Wil you stop mutering to yourself,’ Purvis said angrily. ‘Come back here at once. I think I’ve got an angle already.’
‘How you love to kid yourself,’ Dal as said pityingly and hung up.