Floaters
Budge’s head bobbed.
“Have you tested them?”
Drummond frowned at the constable, as if he’d been insulted. “Whadda you think, copper?”
“Just asking.” Foley was taller than the Drury Lane boy, his gaze more domineering. Neither lowered his eyes.
Ignoring them, Will panned the spyglass across the dock. The Millwallers had done yeomen’s service hauling the thawing sheep into the basin. The carcasses had drifted and now were everywhere, bobbing like grotesque melting ice blocks. Blood slicked the dark water. Lads stood about armed and ready. Scanning their weapons, he saw railway pry bars, digging bars, crowbars, wrecking bars, railway spike mauls, pickaxes. One big Clerkenwell boy wielded a sled
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