Max tried to dress like you used to, did you know that? Well assume so, and Ill talk with her. Dont be a fool. Im not that dumb. I might be willing to pay you for the damage to you. Ill be damned if I’ll support a lawyer with any of my money. The house that we were looking for was in a little better condition than most of its neighbors. It was three stories tall with an English basement and somebody had bothered to give it a coat of fresh white paint and put new screens on all the windows. The house also boasted a covered porch with a wooden railing. A man in an undershirt sat on the porch in a tilted-back kitchen chair, his feet up on the railing, a can of beer in his hand. He was a black man of about sixty with close-cropped white frizzy hair. He sat underneath a dime-store sign that advertised rooms for rent. When she reached us she said,Well, well, well, well, and well. If its not Harvey Longmire and Wardie Murfin. Devine rose, but Cowl said,Wait a minute, I got to let you on the elevator with my phone. Cowl rose, too, and started to the table to get his phone. Only it was the fake one. No, Ive been lucky, too. I followed him to the beauty shop, where I waited until Mrs. Harlan, the defendant in this case, came out. He dialed up an Uber and took it to Ewess old home in Park Slope. Stone sat with Frances until a new nurse was assigned to her, then he took Trixie outside to empty her. On the way back he encountered Dino, who was on the phone. We worked together. We were friends, as I told you on the phone. Im very sorry shes gone. I couldnt even make it through college. Maybe even faster than the old, retired gunfighter. And give you a chance to think up a story? Mason asked. That is right, Doxey said in a low voice. He shook his head.Thats why it didnt fit the pattern.Okay, then on Wednesday you were by the pool with the red bikini?.