What do you see there? he asked, mildly curious. Are we fueled? Stone asked. When Koontz arrived at our booth he didnt sit down for a moment or two but instead remained standing as he looked first at Murfin, then at me, then back at Murfin again. He didnt much approve of what he saw. Are you nuts? I dont want a crazed gunman wandering around the Seagram Building, looking for the right office number and being pissed off when he cant find it. He could be anywhere, the driver of the van. Unless, dear boy, the strikes were all Arch Mixs idea in the first place. Wanting me to see her. I really didnt see that much of her. She... she was working on other things. Then what did you do? Naturally. So I guess Jerry probably quit after finding the body? Or took some time off at least? Just a minute, Judge Hoyt said. Do you wish to object to that, Mr. Mason? She wants to change my bandage. "I merely wanted to know where the dog was, Mason asked cheerfully, and the Court told you to tell me. Now youre trying to squirm out from under the order of the Court The female employees, if not quite as leggy or pretty or poised as their Las Vegas sisters, were nonetheless attractive and appealing and, as always, I wondered how the hell they could keep smiling as long as they did and put up with all the inevitable drunken male bullshit that went with any gig like this. My daughter had been a waitress between her sophomore and junior years in college. A decent place. But man, the tales she told. I wanted to go down there with a bullwhip..