Im Travis Devine. I work here. I was a friend of Sara Ewes. She took the shotgun from him and leaned it against the wall.Well, she said, “were wide awake now. What can we do to get sleepy again? Mason said,Alder bought that island and paid a fabulous price for it. He wants to have a feudal castle all his own. Hes that type. If anything should happen so that he couldnt control every square inch of that island, I think hed go crazy. What did you see, if anything? When you get here. Then lets get out of here, Stone said. He got into the car in the garage and placed the shotgun on his lap, then Fred rolled out onto the street. Two men on motorcycles, who had been waiting at the curb, followed the car. As they turned onto Park Avenue, Stone noticed a motorcyclist sitting on an idling machine, talking on a cell phone. See that, Fred? Good. Thats your interpretation, Mason told him. The Court gave us all this afternoon and all day tomorrow. Now, theres a pretty thought, Dino said. You being scalped at Turnbull& Asser. The woman who called you and Max Quane. Max told his wife that he was about to pull off some deal that would net him two hundred thousand. Max was shacked up with Sally Raines. Just before he got killed Max called me, half petrified, and said he thought he knew what had happened to Mix. A woman called you and told you the same thing, except that she implied that Mix was still alive. She also talked about two hundred thousand dollars. But the woman never called back — possibly because she was Sally who got shot to death that same afternoon, but not before leaving half a word that everybody seems to think is a vital clue. I dont, but I think I know somebody who might. Im afraid I have been careless, not to say stupid. The same term Cowl had used after screwing her barely a half hour before. Heat-of-the-moment thing on Devines part, bravado. And stupid, which bravado almost always was. Were you excited this morning before you went to the district attorneys office? Where? I had an image of the River Cabins public-relations staff sitting around a conference tableà laMad Men, wondering how they were going to deal with this tragedy. The place had such a sterling reputation. Unless they acted quickly and wisely the public might start thinking the place was some kind of dive. Where? Hamilton Burger asked. Then, Mason said, grinning, well cut the bait and try our best to arrange it very temptingly on a very sharp hook..