Some people thought you were with the CIA, Vullo said. Mix said so. That silence was broken at length by Colton, who said,It sounds to me as though Mr. Mason is trying to intimidate the witness. Age forty, five-ten, two hundred pounds, sandy hair. Theres a photograph. Hancock had offered to drive Devine home, probably just to see where he lived. Devine accepted and a few minutes later he climbed out of the car in front of the white two-story brick town house with a one-car detached garage that was part of a small community of like structures. It was not poor, it was not rich. And neither was it just right. What brings you uptown, Dino? he asked. The police have finished searching the place? Mason ran his fingers around the hat band, found the note Della Street had placed there.Yes, yes. Thank you, Della. Here, in your room? To see that the offer is accepted? Its a possibility all right. It now occurred to Devine that that was the reason Valentine had made a run for it and tried to kill them all. He had somehow discovered that Tapshaw had found him out. Yes, Ruth Marvel said, in an answer that was almost indistinguishable. Oh, we keep them around, Drake said. Occasionally, its a good thing to monitor police calls, find out about taxicabs, and so forth. It saves us a lot of leg work, and sometimes the cab companies dont want to give out that information. Process it all you like, Stone said. My client will take your check. The bar wasnt too crowded, since the five oclockers had come and gone, and Dino wasnt there yet. He waved a finger at a bartender and the man produced a Knob Creek bourbon on the rocks. He took a sip, and before he could put the glass down, the bartender set another beside it, filled with a brown whiskey. Im a businessman. So then you had one eye swollen and you had lost track of Lutts and the defendant. You thought you knew where they were going, so you turned around and went back home? Could you use two hundred dollars? You want me to issue her a CIA check for $212,000?.