Does he always talk as pretty as that? I said to Gallops. Just one thing? Wow, youre way ahead of me. Well have a stockholders meeting right after this, Elkins said. Now, lets hear from Perry Mason. All right, Mr. Mason, do you have something to say to us? Just before I slid the card that unlocked the door of my hotel room into the slot I heard a faint sound from inside. Or was it from inside? Though the hotel was new and well constructed, sounds still carried occasionally. Maybe what I heard was from one of the adjoining rooms. He sat at one end of the table and Corsing and I sat on either side of him. I took out my tin box and started to roll a cigarette. The Candidate got up, went over to his desk, and came back with an ashtray that he slid across the table to me. I thanked him. At about the same time, the police got a lead from a taxi driver who had picked up a fare at the Union Station whose description matched the girls they were looking for. This cabbie remembered that he had gone to someplace on Lamison Avenue, but he couldnt remember the exact number. It wassomeplace between Fifth and Ninth. Damn. Lucky son of a bitch. I mean, look at that shit. Look, dude! Were you more than just professional colleagues? And dont lie to me. They thought it was a suicide, but turns out someone murdered her. You do know that he was not in the back yard? Did you know that the revolver which you returned to Mr. Harlan on May thirtieth had been substituted? Oh, I said. How? Does the defence wish to make an opening statement now or later? Judge Sedgwick asked. Devine knew exactly what that one thing was. The entry log, showing him in the building and on the fifty-second floor in the time window necessary to kill Ewes.Then why havent they arrested me? You expecting anybody? Dino asked. The defendant went away in that car. Very well, Your Honor, Hamilton Burger said. The point was merely preliminary..