Yes. He said he wanted to put in some tables for drafting and doing some confidential work there. He asked me to say nothing about it to anyone. Showalters breath came in a blast now. Despite the chill, he was sweating. He must have realized how undone hed sounded. He has a middle initial, so it wont be too bad. It doesnt sound crazy. People will do anything to make money. But you took a huge risk doing what you did. Too late, Gunderson said. The feller faxed me the paperwork, and I sent it to him. Well, I decided to follow George Lutts because I thought he might be in— Im afraid Im going to stake everything on Ezekiel Elkins black eye, Mason said. If I can cross-examine him and make that black eye look significant, I can, perhaps, brand him as the murderer of George Lutts. Otherwise, I’m going to have to put the defendant on the stand, and when I put her on the stand, Hamilton Burger is going to crucify her. Anyway, this is the first time weve seen Saras house. We havent been back until now, you see. He paused, gumming his lips. And now we are. How? Mason paused at the first service station where there was a telephone.Ill only be a minute, he told Doxey. He called Paul Drakes office. “Paul, do you still have contacts with the newspaper reporters who cover police headquarters? Im working on that angle. But I can hear Showalters version. Here you have a young man whos anti-gun, who tells me he’s never even fired a gun of any kind before and you think that would be good for our case but, when you think about it, it can be argued very well the other way. He gets his hands on this rifle in some as yet undetermined way and does enough reading and enough practicing to know how to handle the rifle — he doesn’t need to be a marksman. Jess isn’t going to be shot, anyway. All he has to do is fire a few wild shots at her and it’s mission accomplished.’ Pretty much the same as this one, only brunette. Which is? I met my wife. My first impression was that the small interior had been tossed. Somebody had been looking frantically for something. But as I followed the beam I realized that, no, this was just the way some men lived. No mom, no wifey around, what the hell. Stone explained what had happened so far.And now we arrive at Dark Harbor, and hes waiting for us — or somebody is. Hes been spotted multiple times in the woods around the house, and hes carrying a long gun. Did you sleep with her? She paused once again..