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"I'd get thrown out on my bean if I ever stuck my nose in the kitchen door," Murk said.

Jim Farland had told him the location of the Gilbert apartment, and Murk saw that the lights in it were burning.

If he had stayed he must have blasphemed the religion which was soiling with its murk their love.

"I'd like to know the identity of that masked man," the detective said, when Murk had finished.