Have you considered the possibility that there might be video and entry log evidence ofCowl being in the building when the woman was killed? If so, he would definitely take steps to erase it. Then he would have the video doctored, maybe using this company he bought, and there you would be instead. I looked at my watch. It was two forty-five.You havent got much time to get to the bank. What? No, sir. There was no reason to do so. All right. Yes, sir. I should have known better, but the way she looked me right in the eyes and swore by all that was holy that shed been in her apartment all the evening, the way she accounted for her time, and—and now to have the whole thing blow up in my face, right in the middle of a jury trial. At length the number was finished. The man eased his accordion to his lap, raised his head, and looked out toward the west where the last tint of color was fading, leaving an evening star in sole possession of the sky an evening star so bright that the reflection of it made a shimmering thread of gold in the water. Campbell sat in the same room, in the same chair, but wearing a different set of clothes. A bowl of spaghetti and a bottle of wicker-bottomed Chianti was in front of him next to a half-full glass of wine. A large napkin was tucked into his shirt. He did not look up from his food. Yes. He looked at the name, both seeing it and trying to unsee it. I went on up the stairs to the third floor trying to remember where I had seen the man before. Quanes apartment, number six, seemed to be toward the back, to my right. I started down the hall. It had the smell of sour milk and Spanish spices. When I reached number six I found the door open. Not much. Just an inch or so. I knocked, but when nobody said anything and nothing happened I went in. Mason said,Now look, this hearing was in an adjoining county. After I secured your discharge I drove you back here. That took forty minutes. Now, how long after you arrived here at this apartment hotel, and I had let you out of the car at the curb, did Alder get here? I wonder what Mr. Quane found out that would necessitate someone cutting his throat? He introduced a map of the premises. He introduced the testimony of the police officers who had been summoned when the body was discovered. The ballistic expert told of the characteristics of the fatal bullet and the test bullets and stated that beyond question, the fatal bullet had been fired from the revolver that had been found on the side of the steep hill..