Ive been there. All right then, you fix a time. But first, of course, we tried to run you down. By the time we spotted that canoe, I had a pretty good idea what must have happened, and when we went down through the yacht anchorage and I saw your yacht there, I felt certain. He strode to the exit door, opened it and walked out without once looking back, yet managing to maintain the dignity and power of his presence by the even set of his shoulders and the lines of his back. And then, the night before last, hed called and said he had to leave town. Hed sounded clinically insane to her. Agitated and fearful. Hed started crying. Didnt I tell you it would be? Is that right? Whats so important we had to meet this fast? asked Devine. Mason looked at him steadily.No. Come on in. May I see the keys? No, Ive been lucky, too. Murfin took another loud sip of his coffee, put the cup down, lit another cigarette, stretched, leaned back on the couch, and looked up at the ceiling.You say Gallops put two hundred guys on the payroll, he said. “How do you figure that? For the local press, the recent days events were definitely better than sex, except maybe for the kind that involves animals. To their satisfaction, a congresswoman had been brought down and now the body of a man had been found in mysterious circumstances. Last night, Murfin said. They had Max on the six oclock news last night. Well, Marjorie and me get over there about six-thirty, maybe seven, and Dorothys already flipped. So hell, you know, we figure well stay maybe a couple of hours or so, maybe even three or four, and then we figure the neighbors or somebody else’ll come by and take over. Nobody..