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The Cuckoo's Calling
Part One - 4
Bristow hesitated, then moved back towards his abandoned chair.
His self-restraint crumbling at last, Strike took a chocolate biscuit and crammed it, whole, into his mouth; he took an unused notepad from his desk drawer, flicked it open, reached for a pen and managed to swallow the biscuit in the time it took Bristow to resume his seat.
‘Shall I take that?’ he suggested, pointing to the envelope Bristow was still clutching.