A little over three hundred grand net, after taxes. When they got out of the Bentley at Le Gavroche, they were sheltered by men with large, black umbrellas, though it was not raining. A very good friend. Dino stared at him.Why? Go on, Mason told her. Im afraid we failed to make note of that. Well, Mason said, theres nothing we can do about it at the present time, except try to figure outwhy its missing. Sure, I could have, Mason said. But thats not the way to try this case. Jurors are pretty smart, Paul. You start trying to keep things out of evidence that everyone knows is the truth, and pretty quick the jurors get the idea that youre afraid of the truth. Nothing? Ask Alder, Mason said. I think so. Great! Use my guesthouse. Id say youre pretty normal, she replied. You spent an hour last night looking at my breasts. I like that, Nan said. Bubba Babineaux. Mason patted her shoulder.Dont take it too hard, Della. I had to know... thats all. I took out my tin box, rolled a cigarette, lit it, and thought about Warner Baxter Gallops. I had first met him in the Birmingham bus station in 1964. He and Ward Murfin and I had met there for lunch because back in64, despite what the Supreme Court said, there still werent too many public places in Birmingham where two whites and a black could eat without somebody kicking up a fuss. And Murfin and I werent in Birmingham to desegregate lunch counters. We were there to pick up eight votes. Maybe, she said. Yeah, you would have just shot him, and a witness could have sent you away for a long time. I rose and went over to her and put my hand on her shoulder. She reached up and put her hand on mine, but she didnt look up at me. She stared out over the pond where the ducks seemed to be holding their evening regatta..