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It didn’t take Rodin long to find the list. He ran a search for any file containing the few names he already had—Ratch, the couple and the fat man. Only one file matched all three.
He opened it and knew he had the list. There were nicknames he remembered seeing before, as well as genuine names, and by each one a number, and further columns of data
Rodin compared this to the list he had obtained from Ratch’s screen, the ones connected with Epharim. All the nicknames on Sporiff’s list were on Ratch’s. The numbers indicated their frequency. The higher the number, the more encounters that person had with the old man’s daughter.
Sporiff had been busy with his own investigations. By each nickname and number was another name, with a further column giving, in many cases, an addres
