Just when did you hear all this? Youve already told enough lies, Mason observed smilingly. Go back to your cell and keep your mouth shut. Ill try and salvage something from the wreckage, because Im in a spot where I have to. You have me in this right along with you. No wonder Claud Gloster has been triumphant! I suppose he’s even got a witness who saw you on the bus going back to town. I lost a good man today, Dino said. No, Doxey said. Im worried. We dine at seven oclock every night. Its a schedule that is like clockwork, and Daddy Lutts doesn’t let anything interfere with dinner. Once or twice, when he has been in the middle of a big business deal that he couldn’t conclude he’s telephoned to let us know that he couldn’t be here. But tonight we haven’t heard a word. He’s nearly an hour late, now. We went ahead and had dinner. What does that have to do with anything? She ran her gaze over him.Devine? Isnt that Irish? You dont look Irish. What was the number of that cab? I have this black turtleneck sweater. I dont know if youve noticed but Ive developed this tiny gut. The sweater hides it. But the segment producer says that black is wrong. I had to show him four sweaters. He thinks the light blue one is best. First of all, it’s fucking fall, all right? Who wears light blue anything in the fall? And second, it emphasizes my little gut. You see what I’m talking about?’ Im not sure its even that. Exactly, Mason interrupted. I see that youre quite anxious to make your point, Sheriff, so well concede it. But the fact remains that the purse could quite readily have been dropped by someone standing on the wharf. Whats up? he said evenly. You know her? she asked. He grabbed her arm and dragged her from the room. She nodded toward the rear of the house.Lets go back in the kitchen, she said. “Ive got to sweep up the cornflakes. The maid couldnt make it this morning. No, that other one, farther west. Some housewives were standing with their loaded shopping carts near the entrance of the store waiting for their husbands to drive up and put the groceries into their cars. Slick and I moved over and joined them. Who is she? He was freshly showered although already starting to perspire; his thick hodgepodge of hair was as neatly combed as he could manage it. His face was shaved and mildly scented with a nondescript cologne. He wore cheap tasseled loafers shined fore and aft. The imitation leather briefcase held his company-issued laptop with special encryption and no personal use permitted thereon, along with breath mints and a packet of Pepcid AC. He no longer took the neat little power pills hed popped when suited up to fight for his country. The Army used to give them out like gummy bears so the grunts would battle longer and harder on less sleep and less to eat. Whats everything?.