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' 'Sir, I—' 'Call me sir again while the group is hot, Mr Melrose, and you will celebrate your next two birthdays in the stockade, do you understand that? Catch my old drift-ola?' 'Yes, boss. Playing Mr Smartass Shrink—Boy with his mouth and the front of his mind while the back of his mind went on playing with suicide like a baby who's just discovered his toes in the bathtub. nding there giggling with her girlfriends, not having the slightest idea that the boy walking past has seen what i No way, baby.