Campbell looked at him thoughtfully and for such a long period that Devine finally said,What? 20 to 1 adults only Yes, sir. Very well, yes, sir. The hidey-hole that the man who wanted to be president had found for himself was a big, ugly, faintly Norman house down back of the Shoreham Hotel and just across the street from Rock Creek Park on Creek Drive. Corsing showed some identification proving that he was a U.S. senator to one of the Secret Service men who were hanging about outside and who, after giving the pickup a stare of disbelief, directed us to a place where we could park. River Cabins? Do you work around there? Della Street raised the paper and said,Heres a want ad If Carmen Monterrey, who was in South America nine months ago, will communicate with the undersigned, she will receive information to her financial advantage. Box 123J. Good? More than three hours? Home, Fred, Stone said. Figures. What does that have to do with it? Colton asked. Devine picked up Hancocks gun and thrust it into his waist-band, while the man lay on the floor moaning and holding his destroyed knee. Devine glanced over at Cowl, who was staring in disbelief at him. Thethump-thump beats of the chopper blades, the swirl of heated desert air, the taste of red sand in his mouth along with the biting fumes of aviation fuel in his bloody nostrils. None of those things should happen while youre dying, because dying was enough of a bitch. Where were you educated? Mason asked. And were you doing that on the first of August of this year? That was a Saturday, youll remember. Campbell nodded knowingly.Thats the way they used to do it in the old days. Not bikini colors, mind you, but person-to-person communication using a signal or system that would raise no suspicion whatsoever. A folded newspaper with the below-the-flap part showing, a different-colored flower left in a vase in a window, a light left on or off. In Nam we would tie different-colored bandanas around trees, change the meaning frequently, and the Viet Cong never figured it out. But why did they pull out the red bikini and grind Area 51 to a halt?.