When Courtney had left the shop and stowed her gift in a taxi, a proprietor with a very thin face came up to him and gave his name: Mr. Price. A very fitting name for a shopkeeper, Jim thought.
If his girlfriend, too, stared frightened at the man, she was quickly reassured by his questions, which were only for Jim, and she answered truthfully that she really did not know when Mr. Jim was in had returned home the previous night. But why did he want to know that? Mr. Price asked a few other questions that made his girlfriends heart thump, then dismissed her.
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