Mason said grimly,If your friend, Ruth Marvel, had had a little more experience and a little less conceit, she wouldnt have been feeling so smart. Now were in one hell of a fix. Well, it turns out to be something north of eight hundred thousand dollars, Stone said. Some binoculars... that is, I assume they were binoculars. They were in the case. All right, go on, what happened? Look here, if you think Im going to fall for all this hocus-pocus, youre crazy, the sheriff stormed. Tm not going to monkey with all this red herring mess of planted clues! And what did you see? The chill rain was little more than a drizzle now. She stopped in startled dismay. The defendant. What about elsewhere? the Candidate asked me. And here are their backgrounds. 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 understand. Ill be there as soon as I can. I had a question about something here at the office. Chapter 49 Whos Felix?.