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squad.”
    â€œUntil I started working exclusively fraud,” Caron said. “I guess that’s why I’m on this, the bankers know me. Did you recognize the guys in the bank?”
    â€œPete McCallum was one of them,” Dougherty said. “And Rod Kieran was in Eaton’s.”
    â€œHe have his bag of marbles?”
    â€œYeah.”
    Caron shook his head, and Dougherty thought he even smiled a little. “Didn’t waste any time.”
    â€œI heard McCallum was going to Toronto.”
    â€œLet’s hope this was his stake and he’s gone now.”
    â€œYeah, let’s hope.”
    â€œSo,” Caron said, looking around the wood-panelled room, “this is going to be interesting.”
    â€œNot much to go on.”
    â€œWe’ll shake the trees, something will fall out.”
    â€œWhen are we going to start?”
    â€œTonight, I think,” Caron said. “Probably Peg’s, you know it?”
    â€œSure,” Dougherty said, “motel on Upper Lachine Road, no, St. Jacques.”
    â€œHave you ever stayed there?”
    â€œDoes anyone stay there?”
    â€œNot for more than an hour.”
    â€œWhat are we going to do there?”
    â€œLook around, see if we can find two and a half million dollars.”
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    Judy said, “So this could be a good opportunity?”
    â€œFor the guys who got the two and a half million bucks it is,” Dougherty said.
    They were having dinner at a little Portuguese place on St. Urbain, around the corner from Judy’s apartment. She poured the last of the red wine into her glass and said, “And it could be for you.”
    â€œYeah,” he said. “I guess.”
    â€œNot very enthusiastic.”
    He was thinking that there’d been a lot of these opportunities in the almost ten years since he’d joined the force but none of them ever panned out, why should this one, but he just said, “It’s going to be a lot of work, I think.”
    â€œOvertime?”
    â€œI don’t know. I’m not sure how it’s going to be run. They’re vague on the details right now.”
    â€œThis is the biggest armed robbery in North America,” Judy said.
“Le crime du siècle.”
    â€œAnd we’ve got nothing.”
    â€œBut you’re on the special squad.”
    â€œYeah,” Dougherty said. “They’ve decided it was the Point Boys, and it might be, some of them may be in on it, so they got all the Anglo cops they could.”
    â€œHow many is that?”
    â€œUnder a hundred years old? Me and Levine. And he hasn’t been out of the office in ten years.”
    â€œAnglos don’t join the police anymore?”
    â€œAnd some guys they’re calling bilingual.”
    â€œWhat are you going to do?”
    â€œKnock down some doors, I guess. See who all of a sudden has a lot of extra cash.”
    â€œWell,” Judy said, “it’s close to what you want, it’s detective work.”
    â€œAnother temporary assignment.”
    She leaned back and smiled at him a little and said, “Yeah, but you like it.”
    And she kept looking at him until he smiled a little and said, “Yeah, I do, so what?”
    â€œNothing. It’s just,” she paused and took a drink of her wine, “I never thought it would make me happy to see a policeman happy about his work.”
    â€œWell, this isn’t beating up protesters, this isn’t bashing hippies,” Dougherty said, winking. “This is real bad guys.”
    Judy said, “Yes.” She was still smiling a little, and Dougherty figured she was thinking about her protest days, seemed so long ago now but was really just a few years.
    Then he said, “Speaking of opportunities,” and let it hang for a moment and then Judy said, “I still haven’t heard from the PSBGM.”
    â€œSo, one of these days you’re going to have to apply to