Good thing you didnt think it over, Dino said. Apparently she has a small amount of money. She is an expert typist,-stenographer, and secretary, and is employed at a fair salary. She has some eight or nine thousand dollars which is left from an insurance policy her mother took out in her favor. She is quite a yachting enthusiast and owns a small yacht which wouldnt sell for very much. She has sailed on several yachts, knows the yachting crowd, and apparently is rather popular with them. Her own yacht is a relatively small affair which she picked up at… Mason said, with a quiet smile,You examined this canoe for fingerprints at what time, Mr. Durham? You mean I wouldnt be interested in playing house with him and even bringing along my own spoons. She asked me to go with her. Then, Drake said, why worry about the circumstances of his death? All you needed was a physicians certificate that he was dead. I could have told you that within a few minutes after you telephoned. He was dead as an iced mackerel. Thats all youve got? Maybe. I was getting a tiny flash in the corner of my eye. Must be reflected sunlight. Then what? The deer werent the only wild animals who thought of the garden as a free lunch. Besides the beavers there were raccoons, wild mink, squirrels, innumerable rabbits, and a swarm of muskrats that everyone told me I should trap, but which I didnt. The only thing I had ever killed, other than the wounded deer,was a twelve-button timber rattlesnake. There were also a couple of copperhead water moccasins that I might have taken a shot or two at if they hadnt moved so fast. I left the copperheads for the black snakes, the farmer’s friend, who lived in our attic. At night we could hear them slithering around. Ruth and I found the sound rather comforting, but our infrequent guests said that it kept them awake. He was good, despite being a pig. And I hated the way he always used the worddude. I mean, it was like a bad 1980s movie or something. Good lord, Perry, Drake said, that letter is really something. Where did you get it? Ill do my best to find him before its too late, Cindy. Ill call you later.’ Oh, sure, Drake said sarcastically. I had two sandwiches and coffee, and now I have just had my dessert of four tablets of bicarbonate of soda. Im right back in my stride. Mason crumpled the note in his pocket, escorted his client from the elevator. As the Navaho slowed further, the distance between the two airplanes grew shorter.We may have to go around, Faith said. Chapter Seven Thanks a lot. Im glad to see you still feel friendly. I like the way your mind works, Slick..