I read about your hit list in theTimes. Is this something to do with that? Ill call you right back. Stone hung up and called Herbie. No, sir, she was wearing her yachting clothes, a white turtle-necked knit sweater and yachting slacks and tennis shoes. Hamilton Burger put on his case with the deadly, well-rehearsed precision of a lawyer who has carefully blueprinted every possible development. Well, I had about combed this little beach out, so I got in my yacht and sailed up to San Diego and went to a telephone and put through a call collect to George Alder. I told him I had a bottle with some sort of a letter in it that evidently had been kicked overboard from his jj yacht He didnt seem much interested at first and then he began to get curious and he suggested that I bring the I bottle in to him and hed pay me for my time and trouble." It belonged to my first cousin, Dick Stone, who was CIA. He was poised to become deputy director for operations when he and his wife and daughter were murdered. He stretched out, and kicked off most of the covers to cool down, and found himself listening hard again. It was awfully quiet in the English countryside, he reflected, as he drifted off. I work for Congresswoman Bradshaw. These people you recruited, were they for permanent or temporary jobs? I nodded. Whore you? Ruth Marvel— A neighbour and confidante of Sybil Harlan, she had utmost faith in her own ability to outwit the DA. Shes on the telephone. She says she simply has to talk with you right now. I told her I didnt know whether you were in, that I thought you had left for the day but that Id try to find out. I went out, but came back to wait for my boy friend, and when the phone rang I answered it. She looked at him with determination.Definitely. Iwill trace it, Travis..