45 Then perhaps you can help… Listen! It was like machine-gun fire, only with words. Would it help any if I went in with you? Della Street asked. Or I could phone and tell her that you were on your way in and that you had some disturbing news — sort of break it to her gently. Six, I said. I grew old studying him. When it was over I came down with mono. Thats silly, isnt it? A thirty-two-year-old man with mono. Oh, I said. When? You screw me, Ill kick your ass, said Devine. After I get it from you, Ill get it in writing from the DA. I wont tell him what youve told me until then. Its dangerous to make such assumptions, Mason said. Mason turned to the witness.You knew, did you not, that Herbert Doxey had been using the unpainted contractors shack on your property for the purpose of doing some work? No, it would just take me longer to get at you. Someone once said, Nothing is more exhilarating than having been shot at and missed. So what do we do now? It was empty. Every server, every computer screen was gone. All that was left were the cabinets and the tables. He hurried over to the wall where he had placed the camera. It was gone. I stopped at a butcher shop and got a beefsteak to put on my eye, the witness said. Why, yes. Mr. Doxey knew that I was shooting with Mr. Harlan. He had been a crack shot, and he wanted to give me some instruction. Murfin took another loud sip of his coffee, put the cup down, lit another cigarette, stretched, leaned back on the couch, and looked up at the ceiling.You say Gallops put two hundred guys on the payroll, he said. “How do you figure that?.