No roommates? Okay. Then lets talk about this, but not with the gun pointed at me. Cross-examine, Hamilton Burger said. She had on a white sweater, some sort of blue dungarees that she usually wears for yachting, and a pair of tennis shoes. The five other hecklers started moving toward Murfin who stood, half crouched, waving the blackjack back and forth with his right hand, beckoning the hecklers on with his left. I cracked the bottle of Falstaff against the back of a folding metal chair. It shattered, leaving me with the top half of the bottle and some nicely jagged glass. A very wicked weapon. I moved up beside Murfin and let the hecklers look at the sharp, shiny edges of the jagged glass. Really? You had no interest yourself? Well— The witness hesitated, then said, In a way, yes. There is something I cant understand. How do you mean? Its all we have, theonly chance we have. Please do as I ask you, she said. The officer grinned.That dog was just like a bullet. We opened that door and the dog came out of there like a shot, jerked the rope out of the hands of the man who was trying to hold him, and went out of there like greased lightning. Yeah. Not intentionally, but nevertheless it fell between the cracks somewhere. Well, I started getting a howl from here and a squeal from there and so I asked our guy whos supposedly our liaison with labor what the hells going on. He fished the kids report out from between the cracks, dusted it off, and tried to pass it off to me as being freshly written. Well, it looked grim, but what the hell, everything looks grim in a campaign like this. But something about the report bothered me so I asked to see the person who’d written it. About that, Murfin said. Then everybody found out that it wasnt a boom after all. What it was was sort of a popcorn fart. What? From family bankruptcy to mega bucks in six years? Wrong district. Wont work here. Very conservative voters. Thats unthinkable to them. They wouldnt believe it.’ He slipped out of the booth. Well, if I don’t see you two before, I’ll see you at the debate. Thanks again for coming out here for a couple of days, Dev.’ In the first office I had we found a stray kitten. Shed lie next to my computer when I was working. And at night, when nobody else was around, Id talk to her. No alimony?.