One belonged to our governor and the other to our senator. When I sayour, I mean our party. Yeah, I see. I wished I could roll my eyes the way Abby could. Man, whenshe rolled her eyes you were not only judged guilty, you were sentenced to death. When I sat down at the table Gallops said to me,Id sure admire to buy this lunch for you and Brother Murfin. Thats what we were to him then. Brother Murfin and Brother Longmire. We called him Brother Gallops because he seemed to think thats what everybody called each other in labor unions. Dear sir and brother. Naturally. They sat down and Dino turned his attention to the cricket match again. Now if that dont happen and we go out on this strike that theyre talking about, well, a lot of you people right here in this room arent gonna have jobs to go back to when the strike’s over. And the ones who do have jobs to go back to might be given a little piece of paper to sign. Andyou wanta know what that little piece of paper is gonna be? Well, I’ll tell you. That little piece of paper is gonna be a yellow-dog contract and that’ll be the end of your union because the city’ll have you by the balls. Stone saw the gun and dove for it. Sig was struggling toward him by now. On the way here the radio had informed us that Jess had not been hurt, nor had anyone else. The shooter had escaped. Its fairly dark in here. Mason said. Even with daylight saving time, its rather late. Be careful. Mason waited until he had gone, then turned to Della Street.Get hold of the surety company tell them Ill want them to put up bail within a short time in that Dorothy Fenner case tell them to make any inquiries they want about Dorothy Fenner, but that Ill stand back of any bail bond thats issued, and that I want them in a position to issue one fast when the time comes. So all I said was,Yeah, but the odds are against it. Well take my car, Dino said. Its in Stones garage. Kidnappers always say that, I said. Your brain works pretty good early in the morning, Dino said, then hung up. Just knock. Eagle winced as the doctor probed. Theres gotta be, Murfin said and Quane nodded wisely. Look, Murfin went on, selling me now, “a guy has a great job. He gets along with his wife — well, okay anyway. His healths good. Hes forty-five and his kids aren’t in jail and that’s something. So he gets up one morning, has breakfast, reads the paper, gets in his car and starts to work. He never gets there. They never find him. They never even find his car. He’s just gone.” Then what? Uh-huh, she was, now that I think about it. She was especially interested in what Arch talked about just before we broke up. She kept coming back to that with the excuse that maybe there was something in what hed said that would give me some clue about why it really happened. I mean our bust-up. So I told her what hed said as best as I could remember..