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gives people like us proper jobs? Now can you do it, or do you want to get out and wait for the police to pick you up?”
I don’t know what else to do. “I can do it,” I say. “But you need to help me if I do.”
He bites his nails again as he looks at me. Then he nods. “OK,” he says. “If you help me, I will pay you one hundred pounds. Enough to go to your post office and wait for your dad. But if you screw this up ...”
The words hang in the air, but I have nothing in my pockets and nowhere to go.
What else can I do?
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