Shell be expecting you and the kids, I said. I needed to watch you. I needed to know if you were going to be a goodmatch for Sara. Dino started phoning again. By the time they were called to dinner he had a small apartment for her on the East Side, with a spare room for her protectors.And shes got her phone back, he said. And if he got swept out to sea there was no way in hell Emerson Campbell was throwing him a rope. Unlike being in the Army, now it was sink or swim all by his lonesome. Actually, theres no startingabout it. I think you should institute a money-back guarantee. Well, when I arrived there the others had already been there—theyd been there some little time. I organized the search, and started looking around. We found that a boat was missing from the landing—one of the small boats, and assumed that the murderer might have managed to escape in that.There was a burglar alarm on the wharf, but a person who knew the layout could switch that alarm off from the land side, so that it would be inoperative for about three minutes and then would go on again. I took charge of the phase of the investigation which had for its object the finding of that boat. Ill tell you anyhow, he said. In the big cities theyll vote us out and them in. It is also to be remembered that medical testimony already introduced by the prosecution is to the effect that the fatal bullet was a .38 caliber. It is understood a host of experts are available to the defense, anxious to testify that the hole of an entrance wound made by a bullet is almost always smaller than the caliber of the bullet, due to the elasticity of the human skin, which is pushed far inward before the bullet actually penetrates. Please call your London office and get a tech team over here. Weve got some sort of electronic thing in the wall of my study, so you cant make the call from inside. Pile some boards, a stool and a couple of hundred pounds of scrap iron on it, cover the whole thing with a cloth and be prepared to wheel it into court tomorrow when I give you a signal. Never mind why. Just get the stuff together. Okay, this seems to be a one-way message stream. Okay, that was the wrong thing to say, thought Devine.Really wrong. The two girls with the older guys are a kick, the detective said. Evidently theyre stuck with entertaining some out-of-town buyers. Theyre not party girls, probably stenographers in the office, and they dont like the job. The men are all organized to go great guns, but are cuttingloose and being devilish. The girls would like to have it all over with, and are wondering just what’s going to happen when it comes time for good nights. They duck out to the powder room every twenty minutes or so for a conference, and as soon as they go, the men get their heads together and start plotting in low voices. How should I know he was dead? Jah? And what can I do for you? Well, youre certainly doing the elder brother role this week, she said. Two days in a row. Chapter 52.