I took out my wallet and showed him. My wife hit a number on the lottery, he said. So when the police came, I told them I didnt like their attitude and Id have to see a lawyer before I so much as gave them the time of day. That was when Enny said, Get Perry Mason, honey. And so I told him I was going to. It was his own suggestion. Mason paused. The directors looked at him in open mouthed astonishment. Now, then, the girl said, and the beam of the flashlight penetrated the darkness. Why didnt he go directly back to his island home? Why did he come all the way here? So she was telling me. Now, Mr. Lutts evidently had a shrewd suspicion as to who my client was when I put across that stock deal. Well, one of the reporters said, his wife could have taken it. And what about the shells that you found in the chamber of the gun? Then he must have left that way. Youre going to need to have the people who installed your equipment come back and take a look at it. And two months later she called and said she was pregnant and that it couldnt be Teds because he hadnt touched her in a while.’ He gripped the mans throat with one hand while he hit him with two uppercuts straight into the diaphragm with the other. Then he landed a bruising hook into the oblique. And one more on top of it. Rick moaned and staggered back, with Devine still holding on to his throat. In combat, with a serrated Ranger knife in hand, Devine would have gutted the guy in the midsection area, upward slash and then side to side, to get to the intestines and aorta, and the fight would be over. I came back into the room just in time to see Murfin take the final item from his suitcase. It was a .38 revolver with a snub nose. A belly gun. I knew I couldnt catch her but I started running anyway. And there, in the moonlight, she made the mistake of looking over her shoulder. Well, Della, he said, it looks as though you and I were going to have dinner at a Mexican restaurant tonight..