First prize and he could not find the bloody ticket!
Just then the stitch inside his chest radiated right through to the centre of his being. He clutched the side of the chair before over-balancing and falling to the floor ... his heart had just given out. When he was found the next morning by his landlady she had wondered at the mess of papers there lying on the carpet.
"Usually keeps it tidy, he does" she earnestly pronounced to the undertakers as he was being loaded into the hearse.
She felt embarrassed for him having been found like that.
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Puck did not think that the ticket would be missed.
He had just wanted to give Marley a really nice surprise this time and did not consider that Bartholomew had kept to the same numbers for over a decade and could remember them by heart.
What took ten years of investment for Bartholomew just took ten seconds for Puck to abscond with - and he was fast, so fast that no one even saw him enter or exit the building.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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