Sure, Mason said. Get anything you want sent up, but stick around on the end of that telephone for a while. Things are going to happen. I rang the bell twice and while I waited I admired the thick old wooden door that had been cut down from one that once had provided entrance into a century-old Presbyterian church that had been razed to make way for a McDonalds. My uncle was always scouting demolition sites for fine old wood, stained glass, marble, and other interesting doodads that he somehow incorporated into his decorating scheme that included an all-marble bathroom with a huge stained glass window depicting Moses in the bullrushes. I just wish theyd do it faster. Devine had gotten that text at one in the morning. May I see the sheet, please? You knew her on the third of June of this year? Theyre still out there. In what way? How do you prove a negative? Tapshaw swayed on her feet for a moment. Then the Sig fell from her hand. And she followed along with it, hitting the hard floor face-first and not moving again, except for one last involuntary twitch as life quickly transitioned to death. Thats right. This is her aunt coming now. The aunt owns the joint. He went up to his room and fell asleep in his clothes. The man with the eyebrows moved anyway. He whirled around, searching for somebody to shoot at. I didnt know whether he could see me or not so I shot him in the left leg although I was aiming at his chest. He went down on his knees, but brought his gun up again and fired twice. I shot him again, this time in the shoulder, the left one, and when he still didnt go down, but once more brought his gun up, I fired again and this time the bullet hit him in the face just below his nose. The gun dropped from his hand and he pitched forward onto his face. He twitched once or twice and then after that he didnt move anymore. When alive The Proper Villain had been a nine-year-old yellow tomcat, alley born and bred somewhere in the freak haven that then lay just east of Dupont Circle in Washington. I had found him late one night in the alley back of the Sulgrave Club on Massachusetts Avenue. I had almost stepped on him and he had spit at me and swatted at my ankle, and the girl I was with, a Londoner from around Maida Vale, or maybe it was Paddington, had giggled and said,Now theres a proper villain, int he? At the time he was six weeks old. Maybe seven. Sig did another name on the list late last night. On the drive over I asked him to get something out of the glove box. While he was doing that, I injected him in the neck with the same sedative I used on Stamos. I drove him to the lake near the town house. I stabbed him in the chest and tied a heavy rock to him. Then I threw his laptop and phone in the lake, too, after I rolled him into the water. Will was very heavy, but I was very determined. When I was throwing his stuff in, my phone fell out of my pocket and went into the water. I had some blood on me from stabbing him. I cleaned it up as best as I could, but I probably missed some. They held a stare-off for about five seconds until Devine broke it.Whats your plan? Keep talking. Jill, youre up early. Everything okay? Tom and his men joined him and they searched the grounds all the way to the road..