He heard her feet padding back to her room, where she closed her door. She walked off downstairs and he heard the front door open and close. He crossed the hall and knocked on Tapshaws door, after he heard her tapping away inside. Okay, youve got carte blanche, until I change my mind. Yes, sir. She did a lot tohurt people, too, countered Campbell. Mason hesitated a moment, then sank the paddle deep into the water. And then? Della Street asked. Devine stared dully at the message. Again, he didnt recognize the sender. It was just a series of numbers like last time. So now Larkin is in the wind with eight hundred grand. But then you and I dont ever talk about anything, do we? Well, Mason said, thats that. Come on, Della, lets go. I get that. Let me think about it. And they found precisely nothing, Drake said, no sign of the murderer. The only way that the murderer could have escaped was by water, just as she did the other night. Why? asked Ekman. Hurt, not anger, was in Skullys voice. Hed been cooperating with Showalter. He had to wonder why the man had turned on him. No, no, Mason said. Where was he when he was shot? You just happened to see her on the site? But last night you told Jill that I had told you. He didnt miss that first shot, Mason said. That bullet had been fired two or three days before the murder, when Doxey was testing the gun and his accuracy. He fired one shot, which went through the window and into the wall. That was all the assurance he needed that he was in form and could count on picking Lutts off with one shot. It has been established that the .44 bullet was fired from the gun found buried in the sand. This poses a most embarrassing series of questions for the prosecution. Which bullet killed Alder? If the one in the roof, Alder must have been leaning forward, bent over, when the shot was fired. Shes not all that bad..