I told you I didnt take notes. Anyway, I was half asleep. Beats what I do for a living. Now, go get the pizza. If he puts up a fight come get me. Can you come by the house later? Wed like to talk to you. Yeah, and the guys were long gone by the time they got there. No questions, Mason announced tersely. Oh, I have an arrangement with them, Mason said airily. You can get your things together and go on home. Where do you live, incidentally? I may be able to drive you home. Now they were getting into dangerous territory. But since he had asked the question, Devine suspected the man already knew the answer. A 1957 Cadillac convertible that you had when you were nineteen, I said. It was yellow. Then she goes to a lawyer. The lawyer talks about property settlements, about alimony. That completes the alienation. Every time the husband hears his wifes name, he associates it with financial worries, injunctions, court hearings,alimony pendente lite, and all of that. The other girl furnishes the fun. By that time the man wants his freedom badly enough to pay through the nose. His wife has come to signify a legal headache, impeding his true love for themost wonderful girl in the world who is filled with sympathy and understanding. They sat down and Dino turned his attention to the cricket match again. She got in the car with him. So I just started out by myself, and because I was my own crew I didnt have to pay me. Then when I caught fish, instead of selling them to the public to eat and taking the money for the fish to buy food, I bought the fish from myself, but since I owed the money to me I didnt have to pay anything. And then I ate the fish. Did you have occasion on that date, or very shortly afterwards, to look over the canoes you had rented during the evening? Who the hell else would it be? Gallops, I said. Faith came to a stop. Youre right, he said. Youve got an electronic device there that seems to be both receiving and transmitting. Well take a look around and see if there are others. You go back to the study and resume normal conversation, just not about the device. At half past eleven that night Devine used his security card to let himself and Montgomery inside the Cowl Building. The guard wasnt around. Devine looked at his watch. Making rounds, he assumed. Or maybe he was lying dead somewhere. There was a lot of that going around here..