Chapter Three Yes, sir. But Michelle Montgomery was still alive, though denied a place at whatever table Devine would be heading to, alone. Cadiz nodded. There was wind and a hint of cold rain and somewhere in the gathering clouds was the sound of a passenger jet. Vanessa went outside and was back in less than a minute.I think hes dead, she said. Carmen determined to try it She managed to get a bottle that had been drifting for months. She forged that letter and looked around for Pete Cadiz. Then she planted the bottle where hed be certain to see it. Then she sat tight to await developments. What? No, sir. Shes en route from Hong Kong to Singapore, and I got the same message when I tried her satphone. Not a chance, Mason pointed out. Remember that Cadiz said he couldnt get into this little bay except when the water was very smooth, and that it was only dining periods of high tide and storm that the waves lashed driftwood way up above the normal high-tide line on the beach. Yet on this trip hed been in there for a week combing the high-tide line. Figures. A wasted trip. He was involved in a number of political campaigns. Montgomery said,I was supposed to meet Christian Chilton here. It is, until somebody tells me something better, Stone said. Or gold digging, she interrupted. I looked at him and I saw that he wasnt prying. He was seeking information. There was also an expression of mild hope in his eyes as though he thought that I might give him an answer that would enable him to divorce his wife, marry Jenny, move to a hardscrabble farm in the Ozarks, and tell the voters to get stuffed. If I had done it, perhaps there was a chance, a very small chance, that he could, too. Just wanted to check out a car that was brought here earlier tonight. And you went out the night that the Eweses were killed. You stabbed them in the heart. Ruth smiled and when she did I was glad I was married to her and not to Audrey, although I was very fond of my sister in what has been described as my own peculiar way.Hes only teasing, Ruth said, rose, came over, and gave me a kiss on the head. She then looked at me searchingly for a moment and said, “It was really bad, wasnt it?.