Dino had his purchase wrapped and put into a shopping bag, and they walked all the way back to the house in Wilton Crescent, arriving at the cocktail hour. What was his long-term plan? For the next fifteen minutes I walked around. I overheard policemen, average people, reporters. Every once in a while you hear useful things this way. In my army days Id worked briefly out of Honolulu, where a man whod been an informant for us had been stabbed to death on the beach at night. Id been following him but was waylaid by a major traffic accident. By the time I got there, he was dead. But there’d been a party on that section of beach that night so I’d walked around, listening to people talk. A young woman had complained to her friend that a man had practically knocked her down as she was leaving the restroom and her shoulder hurt badly. I’d got his description and we were able to find the killer two days later. So you saw that, did you? No, sir, I didnt. I think it had just been a closet that had had a ventilator put in it. You could see the dog had been kept in there at intervals—there was a bed, a pan of water, and the inside of the door was just scratched all to pieces where ihe dog had tried to get out when the minder was committed. He had torn a nail loose in his clawing. See if your secure cell phone works. What about elsewhere? the Candidate asked me. The keys were in the car, Mr. Mason. And I really and truly did have the radio turned on. What do you mean not quite? I said. Devine sat back against his seat. He figured she was appearing more routinely because he was on the train and would be watching her. Devine wasnt sure how he felt about that. He was investigating Cowl and she was Cowls girl. That was going to get really complicated really fast. What the hells he talking about? Gallops said. She could be working anywhere, you know, with her skills and mind. She could be teaching at UPenn or Stanford. Of course. The newspaper people have been here? he asked. Then what did you do? Burger asked. I do. Yes, from my days as a policeman, but I never wear it. He took out his phone and sent a text to Emerson Campbell to arrange a meeting that day. Next, he looked at the slip of paper that Fred Ewes had given him, with the information on the clinic that had been involved with Saras abortion. He doubted they would tell him anything over the phone. But they might if he went to the clinic. He had to try. He checked the train schedule on his phone and calculated the logistics. I mentor dozens. Reporter Six:Have you contacted anybody in the Bradshaw campaign?.