“Well, this is no big deal. This is part of the routine. We check the cars.” “I know, but if there’s a routine—then that’s what I should do, too, follow a routine. Or that would be the logical thing, it seems to me.” Sherman was acutely aware of sputtering nonsense, but he hung on to this word routine for dear life. If only he could control the muscles around his mouth— “I’m sorry, I don’t get it,” said Martin. “What routine?” “Well, you mentioned a routine, your routine, for investigating a case like this. I don’t know how these things work, but there must be a routine for the owner of a car
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