‘And a dinky little fence.’ ‘Fences,’ Schaffer said pontifically, ‘are made to be cut or climbed.’ ‘You try cutting or climbing this one, laddie, and you’ll be cooked to a turn in nothing flat. A standard design, using a standard current of 2,300 volt, single-phase, 60 cycle AC. All the best electric chairs have it.’ Schaffer shook his head. ‘Amazing the lengths some folks will go to protect their privacy.’ ‘Fences, floods and Dobermans,’ Smith said. ‘I don’t think that combination will stop us, do you, Lieutenant?’ ‘Of course not. Stop us? Of course not!’
