39 Stupid remark, sorry. You havent heard? Its Sara Ewes. Did you know her? I remember she was a mentor to your class of interns. Sort of. Stone hung up and finished his breakfast. Vanessa, he noticed, was sound asleep again. Is that the window on the time of death? Devine asked. "I dont know. The witness was sullen again. I appreciate the call, Mr Skully. I am, Stone replied. Not right now, but I have to be on an airplane at mid-morning. He couldnt believe that hed threatened the head of one of the biggest investment firms in the world. If Cowl got the cops involved? If he said Devine had tried to blackmail him? The guy could probably make it stick, and Devine didnt have enough money to hire the legal firepower to fight back, just like Cowl had intimated. Well, dont feel bad, Mason told her, simply because the prosecution called you to testify as its witness when one of your friends is on trial. The defendant told you that under my instructions she was going to test the recollection of a possible witness, didnt she? Then youre not reporters. Youre troublemakers. I didnt try to stop her. She needed to weep and she wept. I just waited her out. She didnt recover so much as simply wear out. Nan strode into the room.Is anybody ready for a snack? Paul, you and Della stay with me. But why were you by the pool if Cowl didnt tell you to be? Well, please come in, Mr...? It was like machine-gun fire, only with words. That it was probably a crank call. Thereve been a lot of them..