Della Street said,Well, boys will be boys. I was suspicious and there seemed to be things hitting too close to that town house. I wanted to find out if we had enemies in our own camp. She reached down and stroked his cheek, and it felt so good. There were two calls on my cell pertaining to two other races. None. My older sister is starting a nonprofit to help the homeless in California, which is a big problem there. Thats where Im from. The Bay Area. Its fine, Im just not hungry. He flagged down a waiter and asked him to wrap up his food. Its dinnertime. Twenty-Eight Im not sure yet. I guess after the funeral. Its not going to be much of a funeral. Murfin cant find any pallbearers. That’s pretty fucking funny, isn’t it? A thirty-eight-year-old man dies and he hasn’t got six friends or even acquaintances who’ll be his pallbearers. I think that’s pretty fucking funny. I had to go down and identify him last night on account of Dorothy by then was threatening to kill herself for the thirteenth or fourteenth time. You know what? Good night, Dorothy. He stared at me carefully for several moments and then said,I dont usually do this and I wouldnt have in this instance unless youd said that you were associated with Roger Vullo. Bromfield showed up about ten minutes after I arrived. He beeped and waved me on to follow him. We ended up parking directly across from the office. Think of the stories this house could tell, Mr. Mason. At one time it was a mansion out in the exclusive suburbs. Those were the days when you traveled by horse and buggy and went back and forth to town on an interurban streetcar. Beautiful women climbed up and down those stairs. There were marriages... births... deaths... and then there were people who moved in, common, ordinary people, then another class of people. Can you imagine persons moving out of a house and leaving all of that nasty litter behind them? Its awful when something outlives its usefulness, Mr. Mason. The same type of weapon. I buy revolvers in pairs, so that I can do target shooting with a friend and we will both have the same type of weapon. Better than good, I said. Hes perfect. I cant argue with your reasoning, Stone said, as the car pulled up in front of the house, but not yet..