[Foley paused to spear a bit of squash on his fork before using it to gesture meaningfully.]
/I would think that, if I were to try something like this, my FIRST thought would be to bribe the groundskeeper to leave a window unlocked and then scale the outside wall. But I would also, being a kindhearted soul, realize that if the police found out about that, the groundskeeper would definitely lose his job and even maybe go to prison.
[He ate the squash.]
So if I were a brilliant and attractive police detective, I would start by considering routes that wouldn’t bring the wrath of the law down on undeserving staff.
[That ought to rule out a few dead ends for her. More than fair. The truth of it was that he had come in through the floorboards and taken the statuette through the very podium it stood on through very careful use of a hand drill and saw.]
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[Foley paused to spear a bit of squash on his fork before using it to gesture meaningfully.]
/I would think that, if I were to try something like this, my FIRST thought would be to bribe the groundskeeper to leave a window unlocked and then scale the outside wall. But I would also, being a kindhearted soul, realize that if the police found out about that, the groundskeeper would definitely lose his job and even maybe go to prison.
[He ate the squash.]
So if I were a brilliant and attractive police detective, I would start by considering routes that wouldn’t bring the wrath of the law down on undeserving staff.
[That ought to rule out a few dead ends for her. More than fair. The truth of it was that he had come in through the floorboards and taken the statuette through the very podium it stood on through very careful use of a hand drill and saw.]
Hypothetically, of course.