Your room? All of it, Dorley said. Pissed off. Embittered. Dispirited. And perhaps a bit bemused by fate. He was just a few months away from his pension when they dumped him. He had some interesting theories about civil service reform and the use of the strike by public employees as a collective-bargaining tool. Maybe you ought to tell Jenny, I said. Im going with you. I cant afford it, Drake told him, grinning. Definitely, Della Street said. The mans interesting, but hes nobodys fool and I’ll bet that this is the first time he’s waited any length of time in anyone’s reception room. Stone went back into the hallway and sat down next to Dino.Her last name is Bowers, he said. “Run that. Mason said,All right. Well notify the police. Singapore. Ill see if she can come home flying west, to England. No, she was the woman that Sara loved. And you couldnt live with that. And I was the one who told you about Fred and Ellen Ewes and her attitude toward Sara. So, in a way, Im the reason they were killed. Stabbed through the heart because they, at least in your mind, had no hearts, or at least you implied that in your email to me. And then you manipulated the entry logs to show my card going in at the requisite time to kill Sara, and then you added a video image of me, too, like you just said. Only that didnt jibe with what the night security guard saw. I guess you didn’t know when the guard made his rounds. And Jerry isn’t there at night, so he wouldn’t know, either. That one little oversight blew up your plan. Mason unlocked the exit door of his private office. Keep smiling, he said, as he walked out of the courtroom. All about the damn money, opined Sweaty. But thats gonna be me one day, swear to God. And he sounded like he meant it. Go on, said Shoemaker. Watch him. Ill be right back. I thought of all the technological developments in the last ten years. If cavemen had had TV sets they would have been identical to the heavy box perched above us. But the kind of money he probably made in a place like this precluded him from most extra expenses. And this particular group of men seemed more interested in their conversations than anything else. I was sure that men in dungeons had talked a lot, too. What act? So now, Mason said, we go talk with Mrs. Herbert Doxey. But first we telephone Paul Drake and find out which one of the possible suspects knew nothing about shooting a gun. Our murderer, whoever he was, must have missed that first shot at a distance of hardly more than ten feet..