Its scheduled for next Wednesday. A working day for some of the cops wholl be standing behind him. Theres a town statute that forbids on-duty policemen to appear in any kind of promotional activity. It also forbids law enforcement officers to make any kind of political endorsements.’ 51 Mason said hello and heard Drakes voice on the line. Yes, Perry, what is it? What? she gasped. Mason said to the clerk of the court,if youll make me a certified copy of the judges order, Mr. Clerk, I'll see about getting my client released on bail. He typed it into his phone:Bradley Cowl negative stories. Sergeant Young, Stone said. I wished Id listened longer or listened more competently, because as soon as I stepped inside I faced the same pretty brunette Id met at Jesss and who had later followed me. Karen Foster. They drove out to Doxeys house, which they found without difficulty. It was a large white stucco, red-tile roofed house, a traditional California type of Spanish architecture. There were two palm trees in front of the doorway to the porch, a wide cement walk crossed a velvety, grassy lawn to the sidewalk. Mason tappedthe horn button twice, and almost instantly the door opened and Herbert Doxey started out, turned, said something over his shoulder, closed the door and came running down the walk. You dont know him. Murfin stopped looking at the ceiling and instead looked at me. He nodded happily, gave me one of his more knavish smiles, and said,Yeah, thats just what I was figuring. Okay, Im turning the phone off now. Stone hung up and flipped the switch that turned off all the phones on the fifth floor. Ten seconds later, his cell phone rang. Stone picked it up. If you call me again, Im going to come down there and shoot you, Stone said. No one. I looked back and no one was coming. Believe me, Mr. Mason, I sure was running. I didnt say they were gone. Dont let it. Its not your fault. It was nearly four by the time I got home and Ruth was on the porch by the pond drinking a glass of ice tea. When I leaned down and kissed her she smiled and said,You reek of gin, sir. My wife liked that, Murfin said. She liked it a lot. Yes, sir..