Back then his best mate shut him in the coal-hole. For a dare or a joke or just because it was flaming well there.
Doyle had chewed his knuckles, yelled abuse. He’d emerged smoky-faced, heart hammering under cover of a cocky smile. Gave his former best mate the juiciest black eye.
These days random injustices came in deeper, blacker pits. With
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