Im not sleepy yet, Vanessa said. Whatever will we do with the time? Im still fighting to save my marriage. There was no jukebox, just a TV set mounted upon the wall. It was turned off. And where were the binoculars? Thank you, Mason said. Tell him that its important. Stone went into his office, sat down at his desk, and reached for the envelope on top. Because he gave me a look that I cant explain. I mean, why would the guy even know who I am? Alder let him out. The dog was there and the dog sprang to hold the wrist of George Alder when he tried to kill Carmen Monterrey. She shot him, and Im satisfied that she shot him in self-defense. George Alder fell forward on his face and Carmen Monterrey was in a panic. She realized she had killed the man, and then she suddenly realized that the presence of the dog would be the most incriminating fact against her, so she put the dog back in the closet. She was the only person on earth who could have put that dog back in the closet after George Alder was dead. But the dog had stepped in the pool of Alders blood and enough blood adhered to the hairs on the inside of his feet so that when he heard her leaving and scratched again to get out, there were blood smears on the door. Thats how the blood got on the door. The next morning at nine I was back in Georgetown knocking on my sisters door. She wasnt naked this time when she opened it. She was wearing white pants, a blue silk blouse, and a scarf on her head. She was also carrying a broom in one hand. One phone call, Mason said. Thank you, yes. Well, Gloster said, I guess … I think the whole tiling is irregular. Get hold of Paul Drake for me, Della. Lets start some detectives working. Chapter Eleven In Santa Fe. We think Sig is here, too, but we lost him. Do you see what Im talking about, Mr Conrad? Ive thought of that. I dont like to do it, however, because it will worry my wife when she hears me placing the calls. Oh, I beg counsels pardon, Mason said, Let the record show, then, that the district attorney wishes to recall certain of his witnesses, to correct accuracies in their testimony. Thirty-Five.