He lifted his gaze from his laptop, as he did every morning when passing by this area. Every time he looked out, another structure was going up, or an existing one was being made even more lavish. The cement trucks drove in with wet loads for larger and more elaborate pools, the houses went higher or wider, or a guesthouse was being built or a putting green added. It kept the working class employed, so there was some good in the greed and pretentiousness, he supposed. Someone broke in here. Shell sail through, Dino said. Youre the only mistake shes ever made. Tell me some more about the property, he said as they eased into traffic. An exasperated voice from the deck of one of the other yachts yelled,Get that speedboat out of this yacht anchorage, you drunken fools. They got up and headed for the door.Me first, Dino said. “Ill have a good look around. Devine handed over his security card. Valentine pulled a device out of his backpack on the floor and held it up to the card.This is one twenty-five. Is bullshit. I have app on phone. I can clone card right now by writing whats on your card onto clean one I get from Amazon. Is big bullshit just like encryption on your security database. You took the silver, didnt you, I mean after Mother died? Yes. Where did he get it? Mason asked. Did he run into a door in the dark of the night? When Mix got elected president of the Public Employees Union twelve years ago it actually wasnt much of a union. It was really more of a polite association, the kind that sponsors the annual city hall picnic. Strike was almost a nasty word. Well, if youre going to have a labor union, you can praise good-faith collective bargaining all you want, but your ultimate weapon is the strike. If the political types that youre bargaining with don’t believe that you’ll strike because there’s a law against public employees striking, then you’ve lost all your muscle. It’s like being in a poker game with no money to call a bluff. So Mix went south. No one came after you? And Stamos? After all, you know, Im an international gem thief and those are the dowagers jewels I just tossed in the bottom of the canoe. Dino, I have big news. And what did you do with that green paint, if anything? Mason, narrowing his eyes in thought, gave the matter careful consideration, then said,Try to fix the time when he came, Della. I want to find whether it was before or after George Alder began to realize he had a bear by the tail. Potter raced after him, the power pack on the back of her waist jiggling with the movements. Wait a minute, he wanted you out by the pool in time formy train to come by?.