“You’s lucky as a cricket, Charlie. Berghast’s man were just in here, lookin for some papers. I reckon you’d of got to meet him directly if you was just a minute or two faster.” She watched as Charlie took this in. He nodded in that uncertain way he had. “I fell,” he said. “Else I’d have been here faster.” Ribs laughed. “Then thank God you ain’t agile like me. Else I’d of had to poke old Bailey with the fire sticker and run for the ladies’ toilets.”
