Yeah, I said. Me, too. Well, that might be an explanation. Theyre talking strike in all those places? Murfin asked. So now Showalter will say that Jess was behind this directly? This wasnt just some staffer acting on his or her own? Tell me about you and the CIA, he said. Okay, now he was going for the big fish as he put in his search parameters. Who hadnot left the building the night Ewes was killed? Before he hit the Return key to initiate the search he recognized there was a flaw in this methodology. If people had left in agroup at night, which they often did, it would only take one of their security swipe cards to send all of them down to the lobby. And you didnt need your card to leave the building after hours; you just hit an exit button set next to the doors. You also didnt need your card to enter the building during normal business hours, but you did need it to access the elevators. So the electronic count of the people coming and going really wouldnt be accurate. But the record of anyone’s coming into the building within the time frame the cops were looking at would clearly be relevant, since nogroup would be coming in between midnight and four o’clock. And then they put him in the hospital. What? Certainly not, Mason said. He got excited and said something about a bottle, then he hastily tried to claim that you had a bottle to carry the jewels in. Stone, its Dino! Thats nice, Mason observed quietly. How recently? I said. Doxey said irritably,Well, at least he could have rung up Georgiana. Something dawned on him.Maybe she thinks Im spying on her for Cowl for some reason. And if Cowl had something to do with Saras death, that would be a reason for Stamos to be afraid, and also not reveal the truth to me. The Locust Group. It owns your building. It owns the Lombard Theater. And it owns the brownstone where your buddy Christian Chilton lives. Perhaps I can find a way to detour around the wall, Mason said. Why did that junk disappear? Could you possibly connect me to him at home? 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 And so he stepped onto the 6:20 train every morning, and traveled to the city as punishment. And as much as he hated the work and the life that came with it, that penance would never manage to match his crime..