Is that the only reason? Herbie, across the room from where Stone and Dino waited by the door, tried a breadstick and spat it out. So youll be there. Thats right, I said. I was glad Wade had taken over the conversation because I needed to think through how I was going to attack Showalter if he gave me the chance. I knew better than to try to get to my Glock. Hed shoot me. Well, I dont want to get you worked up any more than you already are, so Ill just say goodnight. Oh, let me give you my address and landline number. Lets say seven o’clock.’ Lets see your new swatches, Stone said. She glanced over her shoulder to look at him, a swift, desperate appraisal. Then, as though realizing she had no other alternative, she raised her right hand, dropped something into the bow of the canoe. Then, catching hold of the bow with two hands, one on each side, she suddenly raised herself with a powerful thrust of strong young arms, and came over the bow, sliding along to lie momentarily flat on her stomach, kicking her legs clear of the water. Then she rolled over with a swift, lithe motion, doubled her knees under her, pulled down her wet dress and said gaspingly,I dont know … who you are … but youd better paddle like helll So your testimony today has been inspired by statements made to you by the district attorney? Yes. I couldnt agree with you more, Murfin said. Sometime on the morning of the fourth, about ten or eleven oclock. I moved down to where Slick lay and picked up his gun. I looked back up at Audrey. She was staring at Slick. Stone was looking out one of the two windows; he withdrew and walked to the other window, where a table with a lamp sat. He pulled the table out of the way and was about to walk around it to the window, when the glass exploded inward and noise filled the room.Shotgun! he yelled. “Hit the deck! She insists that she did not steal any jewelry. She fails to account for the presence of the bath towel, bathing cap and a rubber sack at the scene of the crime. Apparently she is not. able to furnish an alibi. She was aboard her yacht at the time of the burglary. She tells a very peculiar storyabout someone getting aboard her yacht during her absence and stealing something which belonged to her. She intimates, without making a direct accusation, that Mr. Alder knows about this. She says further that when she can get in touch with some mysterious man, whose name she either cant or wont divulge, that she expects to be able to prove some rather serious charge against Mr. Alder, but I cannot ascertain the exact nature of that charge. Strangely enough she says this mysterious man is a lawyer. She feels certain he would help her out but she either doesnt know his name or claims she doesn’t. She has, of course, heard a lot about you and insists she needs the best lawyer available. She is personally acquainted with George S. Alder and seems to be very much afraid of him. IU be there, Cadiz said. Im going to hate the thing all to hell, but Ill be there. That got him an eye roll.Youre not as funny as you think you are. But you share that with most guys..