Hey, Jer, its Barry from next door. You okay— Barry sucked in a breath and blanched. He grabbed her arm and dragged her from the room. I expect so, Stone said. Though it was more like a kidnapping. Lance must have had a plane waiting. Some of them were too deep in conversation, too deep in bumper pool and too deep in a ball game on TV to pay any attention. They would have been just as unhappy as the others if theyd noticed me. A semicircle of aftershave- and cologne-wearing off-duty cops and a bully boy with a bat glaring at me. I wanted to talk with you. Well, then thatsmy fault for not noticing. How can I make it up to you? Be in court this afternoon and youll find out, Mason told him. The following day a nurse turned up, liked the look of his wound, and bound it again. When? I bought them off the Widow Quane who may or may not come to stay with us for a while on Saturday, if she doesnt decide to kill herself first. And did at that time? Unless what? I said. What about Mr. Larkin? Herbie asked. What the hell do you want? Does that mean hes already dead? They clear Area 51, get rid of Christian and Brad, and go somewhere else and set up the money-laundering operation? Some two months prior to the murder? He checked the HTML source code, got the Numeric ID off that, plugged it in, did a few more steps ofURL manipulation, as it was known in the trade — because of Facebooks nonstop battles with nosy jerks like him — like copying profile attributes of some of Chiltons actual friends listed on the page and then injecting them into his own profile, and Christian Chiltons page was fooled into thinking Devine was his best “friend. And since Devine was using a fake online identity of his own to do this, it was highly doubtful that Chilton would be able to reverse engineer to the real Devine. At least he hoped he couldn’t. How can you know for sure?.