Stone laughed, too, and let himself out of the room. He beckoned Carol.You need to put her on suicide watch. Shell try to off herself if she can figure a way. He stared down at her. She looked very small in her two-inch satin pumps. And he looked very big in his cheap suit. She did not play to the other night at first. She relied on a version of her stump speech. The issues we faced, the way she wanted to help lead the country, the terrible ways Dorsey wanted to change America. It was her version of a State of the Union address and like that increasingly hollow speech it was contrived for audience participation. Every fourth line got applause. The newsbites would show the genuine enthusiasm she inspired. Not that there werent a few boos from a small group at the back. A new sign had appeared in their midst: WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK, BRADSHAW. At least they werent waving any guns. Small mercies in this era of a Supreme Court bent on turning us into Beirut. Agreed, but we have to keep pushing forward. He paused, took a sip of his iced tea, and said quietly, Look, can you contact Cowl and tell him that I want to talk to him about Stamoss murder? Answer the question. You dont know who put those keys in the sugar bowl? As a reward for his diligence, ability, and unswerving loyalty to the firm, Filthy Frankie rewarded Murfin, by then nineteen, with a salary of $500 a week, not an insignificant sum to a nineteen-year-old back in 1957 or, for that matter, today. I want the witness to do that, Mason said. Too well. Do you, from time to time, service her automobile? The real wild card that night would be the audience questions. Fifteen minutes had been reserved for that. I had planted three voters— hopefully at least one of them would get through — ready and eager to humiliate Dorsey. Of course, hed have his own plants ready and eager to ask Jess humiliating questions. For us this would be the wildest of wild-card moments. What hadtheir oppo research rattlesnakes turned up on us? Yes, sir. Youre hardly being a baby. Youve been charged with a major felony. A thousand, I said. Ill talk to him for a thousand. And then? Mason asked. Mason said,Now, you have been out to your house during the recess of the court, Mr. Harlan? Go on, Mason said, tell me what happened..