:40:08
Mr. Dalton?
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Damn you!
:40:16
l'm sorry, l can't help it.
:40:18
l keep seeing it. Over and over, l see it.
:40:22
Jill's had a breakdown.
:40:24
-Jill?
-The girl who worked for me.
:40:26
Complete and utter breakdown.
She'll never get over it.
:40:29
Of course, she blames herself,
being the one who first brought him here.
:40:32
-He was introduced to the stables by a girl?
-l just told you, didn't l? Jill Mason.
:40:38
Excuse me for being stupid,
but was that his girlfriend?
:40:41
How should l know?
:40:42
No, he met up with her somewhere,
asked for a job.
:40:45
She told him to come and see me.
:40:48
-Piss off now, will you?
-Yes, l'll be going.
:40:52
One thing, when he first appeared,
did he seem peculiar?
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-l mean, odd in any way?
-No.
:40:58
He did bloody good.
:41:00
He spent hours with the horses,
cleaning and grooming...
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way over the call of duty.
:41:06
l thought he was a real find.
:41:10
Apparently, the whole time
he worked for you, he never actually rode.
:41:14
-That's true.
-Wasn't that peculiar?
:41:17
Certainly, if he didn't.
:41:20
What do you mean?
:41:22
l mean, on and off, that whole year...
:41:25
l had the feeling
the horses were being taken out at night.
:41:30
-At night?
-Just odd things l noticed.
:41:34
l mean...
:41:35
too often, one of them would be sweaty
first thing in the morning...
:41:39
when it wasn't sick. Very sweaty, too.
:41:42
lts stall wouldn't be as mucky
as it should be...
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if it had been in all night.
:41:46
Stupidly enough,
l never paid much mind to it at the time.
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lt wasn't until l realized
l'd been hiring a loony...
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that l came to wonder if he hadn't been
riding all the time, behind our backs.