Dont you remember my making the order? You dont go to funerals. Murfin sounded as if I had told him that I didnt go to bed nights, but hung from the rafters instead. There were a scattering of exes — wives and husbands, and just good friends — who are candidates, but nobody who is known to any of the other survivors — so far. In fact, none of the names that anybody on the list came up with are known to any of the others. I probably wouldnt have to call Cindy tonight unless it was to tell her that her husband was on track to be in the Slob Hall of Fame, but she probably already knew that. Youre sure its there? Think about it, he said. What did Sig ever do for you but hang you out to dry? Youre not going to hear from him again, you know. You might see him, briefly, before you talk, when he comes to cut your throat. Im surprised he hasnt already tried. My pleasure. I was talking to Mike when the sat system went down, so I tried her, instead. He was about to say something meaningful about the hit list when we were cut off. Chilton looked away for a moment. When he glanced back at Devine, his entire demeanor had changed.Everything you just said comports with what weve found in our preliminary due diligence. Objected to as incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial, Burger said. I do, but finish your breakfast and digest it for a while first. Sybil met his eyes.Do we have to discuss it now, Enny? Cowl wasnt there, and he wondered where the man might be. Hi, Paul, Mason said. How was La Jolla? Devine looked at the general with a new level of respect.As far as I know, Im the only one who got those emails. Whats Ted saying about all this? Thatd be a little rich for Max, Murfin said. I came from nothing, Cowl began in his address to the class of newbies. And built everything you see here entirely on my own. Mason moved around the desk, smiled at the perplexed and exasperated Lutts, walked back to a second office, the door of which was letteredHerbert Doxey, Secretary and pushed the door open. When Slick called last week he wanted to know all about the kids and me. He must have talked for fifteen minutes about that. I thought hed never shut up. He even offered to take the kids to the zoo. I told him they hated the zoo. Well, he dropped the kids and switched to me. How was I feeling? Was there anything he could do for me? Maybe we could go to dinner soon. And then — ever so casually, he even lapsed into French — he said, by the way, he was just wondering whether I had any idea of what might have happened to Arch Mix. And that was going to be your next question, too, wasnt it, Harvey?.