He was no longer waiting for Godot. He was going right to the source, in a manner of speaking. Okay, thats worth a try. Nothing at the time, but shortly after Alders murder I was in touch with the authorities. They wanted to go over my stock of canoes. Dude, the email? That trust covers all the stock? Mason asked. But first, of course, we tried to run you down. By the time we spotted that canoe, I had a pretty good idea what must have happened, and when we went down through the yacht anchorage and I saw your yacht there, I felt certain. I didnt touch anything, Doxey said. I wanted to straighten him up, but Mr. Mason said to leave him alone. She kept coming back to a couple of nights right toward the last when Arch was talking about you and the union. He wasnt bad-mouthing you. It was just that hed found out something that made him think of you and the union back in sixty-four. Drake looked at him in surprise. Nah, when he slammed on the brakes, he got rear-ended. According to witnesses in the opposite lane, who were stopped because of a traffic accident, he reached into the glove compartment for something, presumably a weapon, walked calmly to the car who hit him, and shot two people, man and woman, through their windshield, both DOA. We werent in a closet, Elkins said. The house that we were looking for was in a little better condition than most of its neighbors. It was three stories tall with an English basement and somebody had bothered to give it a coat of fresh white paint and put new screens on all the windows. The house also boasted a covered porch with a wooden railing. A man in an undershirt sat on the porch in a tilted-back kitchen chair, his feet up on the railing, a can of beer in his hand. He was a black man of about sixty with close-cropped white frizzy hair. He sat underneath a dime-store sign that advertised rooms for rent. Is it something to do with Mr. Mix? The killer must be someone at the firm. We thought that all along, didnt we? So then he came home to me, wanting to confess his infidelities and be forgiven. I think were still dealing with the adrenaline, Stone said. Would you and your men like beds, Tom?.