Loyne lingered   fingered  -  DAY 2

              ( Phone no longer buzzing           Insect neither )
ALL:  ?So that was a may-bee then .. ( pause )  . . was it?   
SNO/ISE:  And the pastor's won and done, been done in, or  'done a Darwin' * ... Any which way you helped him along the way, Mr.Loyne, sure as legs is eggs.  Trouble came his way then or now; an answer beg the question, odd though all the same.  Canoe or no canoe, you can run but you cannot hide, eh Ise?  ..  Ise?!   
(Ise shake head and nod as one)    Here's the thing, Loyney old boy,   (holds up old cassette tape to Loyne)  . . 
a recording of you and Henry Frog from way back, when you were school chums,?eh    
Disturbing sounds for sure:  Frog stormin the stall-warts of EddieStobart;  aint pretty, truth be told.
LOYNE:   You dont need to be an oil painting to get rich from trucking.
KELOSTEMY NIN:   Not  Eddie!, Loyne.  Sno was talking about what we heard on the tape ... some most  'orrible noises.  You'd be ruined if it was leaked to the papers.
LOYNE:  I am the papers, remember ?
NIN: Not in  Al Jumahiriyah al Arabiyah al Libiyah ash Shabiyah al Ishtirakiyah al Uzma! 
       That is if my sources are worth their salt. 
LOYNE: Hmmm ...  (pause)   You'd be hard pressed to make any of that stick.  The sound quality alone  .. (covering)  or so I'd imagine ..  will be fairly shoddy  so . .
MOLTE 'N SKINEY:  (interrupts)  You're missin the point, Sikment.   Frog being made to play  Leap-Chicken  with Stobart is neither here nor there, however much the pastor was pigsquealin.   We're far more interested in what comes later on the cassette  ... some sounds you obviously didn't tape over.
LOYNE: There is nothing else.. (hurried) I mean .. (worried)  what do you mean exactly?
M 'n S:  Early morning recordings made in the woods. 
LOYNE: You're bluffing.
M 'n S:  A man identifying himself as you and then introducing us to noises ....
LOYNE:  (quickly)  . . still bluffing .....
ALL:   . . ! BIRD NOISES  !!
LOYNE:  Damn you to hell !!!
SNO/ISE:  Murky waters, Loyney.  Reckon you're in it up to your dirty old neck.   Henry as well probably, if he's still with us.   !No, and we're not buyin any of that  !HolyFrogTV crap neither.   
LOYNE:   (pause)    . . . Can I make a call?  
SNO/ISE: May-bee ! ..   (with some venom) Ise!, pass him the may-bee, ?will you   
LOYNE:  (hesitant) ... It's..er .. not been buzzin ..  is it still .. ?
ALL:   (interceding)  Sure.


  * To 'do a Darwin': To fake one's death in an alleged canoeing incident.         See John Darwin