I believe I can manage that, Dino said, and reached again for the satphone. Well … yes. Chapter 27 The witness fidgeted a bit on the witness stand. Just tell whoever answers that you want to report a homicide, Mason said, and tell them youre in a hurry. Theyll put you through. Then why did she come to see you? he persisted. You didnt say that. Had somebody beaten me here and killed him?Let me go in and check on him. Because of what happened Saturday night Now, just a minute, Mason said. Take it easy. Mason glanced impatiently at the luminous dial of his wrist watch. It was getting late, and he wanted to return the canoe and get back to town. He had surveyed the accretion line of the sandspit enough to form a definite plan of action. Within the next few days George S. Alder would be given a jolt which would cause him considerable inconvenience. Yet, at the moment, the lawyer dared not leave. He could not overlook the potential possibilities inherent in this surreptitious visitor who had appeared swimming out of the darkness with the deft stroke of one who is as much at home in the water as on land. Certainly there was something… And you checked the numbers of those guns against the list? If Mix shows up, he can clear up this whole mess, cant he? You dont need to tell the police that. There is a beauty parlor about half a block down the street from my parking lot. She patronizes this beauty parlour regularly and leaves her car in my parking lot. It definitely makes you think, said Devine, who was also thinking that Ellen Ewes would hate it. So I guess she never mentioned it to you? Dinos working on a clearance. When?.