Police! Stone said helpfully. That probably will be the sixty-four-dollar question which Claud Gloster will hurl at Perry Mason in front of the jury Monday morning. I thought you were going back upstairs for a nap. Now, then, the girl said, and the beam of the flashlight penetrated the darkness. Youre on. Ill see you at the usual time, and Ill bring my toothbrush. You dont want to do a trick like that, Mason told him. You cant add that handicap to the load your wifes carrying. Newspaper reporters are watching you. If they see you turn away like this, they’ll— Well, thats why Im calling. Gallops thought about that a moment and said,Well, I still dont like it. I dont like people sticking their nose in where it dont belong. Im free to go? I didnt want any. I just fixed myself a cup of chocolate and let it go at that. I had all the materials here so I didnt go out Lunch. With that Vullo picked up some papers on his desk and lost himself in them. I was dismissed. I was not only dismissed, but I also seemed to have been forgotten. He was thus stunned when not a single name, other than Jerry Myers, appeared on the screen as having accessed that floor on Friday morning. How was that possible? He did another search and then popped his head up for a moment to make sure the coast was still clear. He checked his watch. He still had time. The unexpected developments in the case followed an examination of the premises by Perry Mason, attorney for the defendant, Paul Drake, a private detective employed by him, and several deputies armed with devices designed to detect the presence of metallic substances below the surface of the earth. He moved his head faster than was wise and paid for it. His face cramped with pain. He grumbled and then cursed.You son of a bitch. I asked you a question. What the hellre you doing here? And then Cowls gaze moved on, as he was laughing, scowling, grinning, waving, and even playfully flipping one man off. But he didnt come back to Devine. And Devine wondered two things: why the look had landed in the first place, and what would come of it. Or maybe Cowl was seeing right through Devine and wondering about some problem in the Japanese bond market, or whether a tax audit was going funny, or whether the blond princess would find out he was screwing young, nubile financial whizzes on the fifty-second floor. Then I bid you a cheery good day, the man replied, and he and his partner departed. Dont go there, Michelle. I do not want to hear it..