I Sell The Dead Page #4

making sure he was happy.

Meanwhile, we weren't making a penny.

On the bread line, we were.

A hard slog.

One job though, one

job changed all that.

One job turned us from

body snatchers into ghouls.

Ghouls?

Ghouls.

A body snatcher will steal the dead,

but a ghoul will steal just

about anything, dead or other.

Time was when a corpse didn't do much,

just laid there.

Not so anymore.

Well, I mean, surely to God,

a corpse is a corpse is a corpse.

What harm is one to anyone?

Plenty, if it has a good mind to.

I see.

No, you don't.

I think I do.

Father, if I've learned

anything over the years,

it's that you never,

ever trust a corpse.

I had hoped to be

hearing these tales today.

When I first heard that the

snatchers Grimes and Blake

had been reprimanded, I

rushed here to meet with you.

You've heard of us, then?

Oh, your reputation precedes you

in certain circles.

Occult circles.

You have some knowledge

of the occult, then.

Things that go...

In the night, yes.

Yes.

When I first heard the stories,

I thought they were

the stuff of nonsense.

But lately I've come to accept them,

and I actively pursue the tellers.

Unfortunately, my time

with them is brief.

In fact, you'd be dead right

now if it wasn't for me.

Is that so?

Oh, yeah.

I paid the executioner

for our time together.

Is this the first

time you've paid someone

to be alone with a man, Father?

You're not looking too

funny right now Mr. Blake.

Willie Grimes.

Willie Grimes introduced you

to the underbelly of

the resurrection trade.

Well, not so much as introduced me,

more as stumbled upon it with me.

Ronnie put us onto this job.

Out on the moors, it was,

right in the middle of nowhere.

Took us ages to find it.

But it was worth the effort.

Right, it's ready.

You can unearth the thing.

I'm wrecked.

You're getting old.

I'm getting hungry.

Me too.

I hate this.

Backbreaking work, and all

we ever are is famished.

And broke.

If that rotten bastard Quint

was a little less miserable,

things might be different.

We should do him in.

Ah, he's too well connected.

Besides, that's a mug's game.

Still, I'm hungry enough,

I could eat that corpse over there.

What you got there?

Sandwich.

A what which?

Sandwich.

It's food.

Food.

Two lumps of bread with

something in the middle.

It's genius.

Ah, it's queer.

No, it's all right.

You can put anything inside.

What's in it?

Uh, looks like...

Like?

Looks like it tastes

better than it looks.

How did you afford one?

- I nicked it.

- Arthur.

What?

I'll pay them back when I'm flush.

I fancy a bite.

Give it here.

I'll tell you what.

I'll share it with you for

a few glugs of your whiskey.

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