Then we want the privilege of inspecting them, Mason said. Pretty much every man on the train car waved back. Except Devine. Ironic, since he was pretty sure he was the one she was waving to. He knows what I look like, but maybe not you. Just walk in, check out the front porch, then walk in, buy something at the pastry counter and check out the dining room while youre waiting. I did. Stayed until I graduated college, with a degree in the care and feeding of children. I wanted to open my own day-care center. No word from Mrs. Harlan? Mason asked. I was then prepared to crucify him by showing that Dorothy Fenner didnt need to go back to get the letter because shed already made a copy of it, and that Dorley Alder had seen a copy of the letter before the murder was committed. That would knock the props out of the prosecutions motivation. Then I intended to drag enough evidence in about the death of Minerva Danby to make it appear that Alder was a murderer and had got just what was coming to him, and kick the prosecution’s case all over the courtroom, and then out the window. Stone got the thing out and pressed the appropriate buttons.Scramble, he said into the phone. He got an immediate confirmation from Lance Cabot. “It works, Stone said to the CIA tech. Yes, he has quite a collection. Hes quite an outdoor man... used to do a lot of hunting. No mail, Mason told her. I want to review the situation in my mind, so Ill have the various factors at my fingertips. We may have to work fast. Forever, Viv echoed. To find Sara? The same woman he had argued with before, Lydia White, came over to him. She looked pale and distraught.What is going on, Travis? I didnt say that, Mason told him. The case you were sent down to La Jolla to work on had nothing to do with the taxi driver. Where are you now? Mason asked. Where do you want to go? I was looking toward the kitchen, thinking that Quane perhaps had forgotten the cream or the sugar for his coffee. There was a sound to my left. I looked. Max Quane came out of the bathroom..