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Barrytron... had hired the Maritimo Brothers Construction Company, which was gangster-controlled, to build a system which would get rid of the waste. They knew the company was gangster-controlled. Everybody knew that. But the Maritimo Brothers were usually the best builders in town. They had built Dwayne Hoover's house, for instance, which was a solid house. But every so often they would do something amazingly criminal. The Barrytron disposal system was a case in point.

Sybil: We have used O'Reilly three times in the last year and each time it has been a fiasco! That wall out there is still not done! You had him in to change a washer in November and we didn't have any running water for two bloody weeks!
Basil: Well he's not really a plumber, dear.
Sybil: Why did you hire him? Because he's cheap! And the reason he's cheap is because he's no bloody good!


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