She drove up in a taxicab. But I wanted to drop in to assure you that I meant what I said to you yesterday. You have made a friend and you have an ally, not only individually, but as the surviving member of Alder Associates, Incorporated. Today, Stone said to Lance. It was nearly ten minutes before Doxey returned, and Mason could hear the sound of the siren as a police car followed him. The lawyer walked out away from the doorway. Because, like Max, I dont have any insurance and if I keep on poking around and, like Max, come up with a hot idea about what really happened to Arch Mix, then somebody might decide to cut my throat, which would leave my wife a very poor widow. She glanced nervously at him.Murder disguised as suicide, like Brad was talking about with you and those men in the Army who died? Mason grinned, winked at Della Street and said,Witness. I introduced them, I said. Us being? He looked out the window and bit into a celery stick. First reason, you have flash crash, when computer make mistake because of bad line of code or something. Then it sells when it should buy, or vice versa. You lose billions in snap of finger. Della Street said with some asperity,I suppose if you were getting married, and just as the wedding march was starting you got an idea about a case, youd be off for the courtroom. Go ahead, Chief, Ive got my pencil all ready. What are the questions? Do you have servants? I thought maybe he might have once worked for you. Drake looked up as they entered, nodded, and then devoted his attention to earphones which were clamped over his head. I called a friend of mine in the Chicago Police Department. Id needed him for several different jobs in the past and paid him so well for them that hed usually oblige me. I gave him Franks license plate and asked him if he’d run it for me. Hopefully the computer would yield a viable address. Im not talking about a contract. Im talking about a gentlemens agreement. We sat there in silence for a moment, eyeing each other, waiting to see who would be the first to say something inane about the twists of fate. When neither of us did I said,Who hired you to look into Arch Mix?.