What condition?’ ‘He's got a bad heart as well as the leg injuries he got in the war which put him in his wheelchair.’ ‘Ah.’ If there was one thing… - Catherine Aird

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What condition?’

‘He's got a bad heart as well as the leg injuries he got in the war which put him in his wheelchair.’

‘Ah.’ If there was one thing which every policeman knew it was that families were bad for every medical condition, but especially for heart ones. Legs were less important.

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