When they were outside, she yanked her arm free and said,Look, you son of a bitch, you cant tell me what— No, but I found out that Cowl got called out at just around the time she died. And now hes pulled a disappearing act. So either he killed her, or else he found the body, called the police, and went into hiding. Mason nodded. My name is the last on his list. I had hoped that meant that hed come after me last. If I may use the phone, Your Honor. As she hunched down to begin her examination, she glanced up at me with a freckled Midwestern-girl face that was a little too spare to be pretty but had a friendly, intelligent appeal to the dark eyes and full mouth. When he wasnt saying yes and no into the phone he sat quietly at his desk with the patient look of a man who has learned how to wait. Once in a while he would flick a glance at me although I dont think I really interested him that much. My one attempt at idle conversation had failed utterly. I had said, Been with the union long? He had said, “No, not long, and then he had gone back to waiting for the phone to ring so that he could pick it up and say yes or no. Sig Larkin had three buddies he served with and worked with later, when he was at the Bureau. Seconds passed with nothing but elevated breathing among the three. And thats when you went on the Watergate committee? I said. I didnt fix it, Mason said. You did. What did she do then? He killed a security guard, Stone said. They dont hand out lollipops for that. Showalter sure didnt like that. You and her, I mean. Now it was my turn to look at them. There was no way to tell if any of them belonged to Showalters group. But this wastheirplace, invitation only. And I definitely wasnt the type whod get himself invited. But youve learned from your husband, informally and off the record, who that client is? Sally wanted to know everything that Arch had said about him. It really wasnt very much. So it gives me great pleasure to dedicate this book to my friend:.