Stone, its Dino! Dino rolled down his window.One of us ought to follow that truck, he said. “Who? Sounds great. If thats the case, why exchange at all? I know. Its called high-frequency trading. Buy it a millisecond before the shares or bonds rise a penny, which in the course of a day they all do, and sell it a millisecond later before the shares or bond prices drop a penny. Its like being just ahead of a wave rising and falling. You haveto have expensive and specially designed software and infrastructure. The institutions have that, plus, because theyre licensed brokers, they’re hardwired into the exchanges; it’s called naked access. And it’s not just brokers, but hedge funds and specialty firms. I know. I have an appointment at the beauty shop right after we leave here, and I dressed for that appointment instead of for this. I hope you dont mind my making a spectacle of myself, but I dont want to get dirty. 2 Mason grinned, winked at Della Street and said,Witness. Lets try them. They should work. To me and our baby. I had earlier hacked into the firms calendar and found out about the M and A seminar the next day. That made it perfect for Jerry to kill her the night before. I told him no one would suspect him if he was the one to find the body. And you dont need your card to enter or leave the building during normal business hours. And Jerry had ridden up on the elevator to the fifty-second floor with some other people he knew worked on that floor, so he didnt have to use his card. After he killed Sara he slept in a spare office and showed up for work in his uniform. You mean that the whole thing was a plant? She had brought along a cup of hot water and a clean cloth. She cleaned the wound— a deep horizontal gash about the length of his eyebrow — and examined his eyes for signs of a concussion. Then she used an antiseptic on the trauma area. Tell Viv that Vanessas going shopping. So it would seem that the late Mr. Quane purposely wooed Miss Raines so that he could use her to pry information about Arch Mix out of Audrey. Pillow-talk information, I suppose one should call it. The fellow must have been something of a cad. Come in. I will, Cindy. As soon as Ive got some news. And weve got only one weapon among the three of us. Shes very... disturbed. Scared, Id say. Im not quite sure why, but that doesnt surprise me. Della Street folded the copy of the letter, handed it back to Perry Mason..