I made a fool of myself, he admitted. All I could ask for, Stone said. I believe you told my secretary you didnt want separate maintenance? Dino hopped up onto the toilet and looked both ways out the window.Alley, he said. “I dont see him. Well have to split up. You told her there were about a million telephone calls? Grimess car was parked near the entrance behind a rusted dumpster. I dont know. Maybe farther than you think, at least from my perspective, he thought. Well, Pete Cadiz pointed out, there isnt a great deal of outside money comes in, so I aim to be pretty self-sufficient. I make a few lobster traps and when I get ready to make them I dont have money to go buy lumber. I find my lumber in the form of driftwood. I get around and catch abalones, sell some abalone-shell ornaments, I pick up odd bits of driftwood, sell a few knickknacks here and there to yachtsmen. I drift around wherever I happen to want to be. Sometimes I have to pour some gasoline into the engine but for the most part I use the wind. The wind is free and itll get you there. Not always on schedule, but what the hell is a schedule? Living the sort of life I live you don’t have to worry about clocks and calendars. What results are you getting from your shadows, Paul? What is Roxy Claffin doing? The witness squirmed. Vullo had been leaning toward me, his elbows on the desk. He was wearing a suit, a cheap grey one that fitted him poorly and might have come from Penneys or even Robert Halls. Its elbows were shiny, or at least shinier than the rest of the suit whose synthetic fibers had a glisten all of their own. Beneath the coat was a white shirt with a collar whose points went this way and that. The collar was plugged by the small knot of a narrow green and yellow tie that had some interesting spots on it. Catsup, I decided, and maybe a little dried cottage cheese. Theyre talking about a strike. I dont want no fuckin strike. Strikes are dumb. For a moment she remained with them out of curiosity, then said,Well, if youll excuse me, Ive got lunch ready to put on the table. I expect Herbert at any moment. Put some clothes on and sweat a little. Come up here..