Devine didnt make eye contact with anyone the whole ride home. And as full of shit as ever. I am now trying to make allowances for the fact that I have had a very trying experience, that the events of the last twenty-four hours have been such as to shock me greatly. But, despite all of my attempts to discount what has happened and account for it as being nerves, I am filled with apprehension. Where were you last night? Stone handed Herbie back his clothing and peered through the window.Could be him, he said. What are you afraid of? Mason asked. Do you think Id get her to tell a lie? Would she perjure herself at my request? The woman, who was not large, flew backward onto the floor in a spray of blood, and the dog began to bark incessantly. Stone didnt need a second shot. You already had a steak. Telling me? Trixie seemed to think something was wrong. Stone stroked her head, calming her.Trixie knows him better than you do, he said to Frances. So you gave Grimes a gun? Possibly. Then, I want him brought to the Reardon Mortuary. We all get buried out of there. Ill call the morgue. Im sure there’ll be an autopsy. I’ll insist on it.’ You know Dad has a new one. Do they sting you? He was a thick, powerful man, and in repose his face had deeply etched lines which, together with the keen scrutiny of his eyes, gave an impression of calmness, and of poised power. He was running in the dark. When he reached me he was bathed in the dirty streetlight of this dirty, half-deserted neighborhood. Della Street nodded approvingly.Im glad youll see her. As I mentioned beforeI might learn something that would standme in good stead in the future..