It was a nice evening, so he didnt bother with his car and driver, finding a cab, instead. Ten minutes up Third Avenue, and he got out at Fifty-fifth Street and went into P.J. Clarkes. At a store window? Do you have anything to say on that point, Mr. Mason? Judge Hoyt asked. You made a lot of big mistakes, Mason said grimly. What about those ignition keys? And how long was this before this gentleman came in—the gentleman who gave you the five dollars for violating the rules? As he walked home from the station, a black sedan pulled up. No, sir. The FBO ordered for us. I have sandwiches. No, said Devine as he hurried past the man and rang the bell on the front door of the clinic. It was barred and armored and had a surveillance camera mounted in the corner. She yawned.Sorry. Its time for me to pack it in. Ive got a husband at home who always makes breakfast for me no matter what time I roll in. That and bed sound pretty darned good right now. Did you follow a course which would take you near the point shown on this map, Peoples Exhibit A? Why not? He was perfect. I remember everything, she said. It was the summer of forty-eight. You were fifteen and I was five and the swing went out over the river or the creek or lake or whatever it was and you held me and then we fell a mile into the water. That was a hell of a summer, wasnt it? On the way. Cause of death? What place? Then what? Shes left the country. At the time I was too stupid to realize what he had in mind. I was rather proud of my reticence in keeping my own counsel until I could bring the news to George Alder because I knew how he disliked newspaper notoriety. Sometime just after dusk, Karens car had skidded off a narrow road up on top of one of those steep limestone cliffs in the eastern rural part of the town. A passerby had noticed a stray beam of light angling up from the creek far below the cliff. Hed gotten out of the car to see what had happened and inched his way down inthe stinging downpour. Hed related all this to the reporter in excited tones. The car had been crushed in on itself from rolling over two or three times. He said he’d seen a woman trapped inside. There was no way he could extract her. He’d brought a flashlight with him. From what he could see of her bloody face, he’d assumed she was dead. He’d called 911. They’d needed the jaws of life to extract her. He’d been surprised to hear the ambulance tech say she was still alive. .