The Emerging

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Sidney Rawlings, known as 'Sid the Snake' to his few friends and most of the officers at the local police station, breathed out and wiped the sweat from his brow.

A small man, no taller than five-two and weighing less than a hundred and twelve pounds (eight stone); he made good use of his small stature in squeezing through very small spaces. He'd burgled his first house when just twelve years old and had never looked back. Except, of course, for the five occasions when he'd looked back from the dock at his weeping mother, as he'd been taken down for increasingly long stretches of imprisonment at Her Majesty's pleasure.

This time was different, or so he told himself. It would have to be, as he was almost forty years old and wasn't as supple as he once had been. Also, he really didn't want to be sent away for Her Majesty's pleasure ever again. The dear old Queen could get her pleasure from some other distraction; racehorses, perhaps?

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