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Im sure he did, Cindy. Youll get that chance in a few minutes. Hes on his way out here to talk to me. I ain a bachelor, and a retiring one, Mr. Mason. My chief relaxation is reading. I am sixty-three and I had only hoped to continue to draw my annuities from the corporate trust and pursue the even tenor of my ways. Ekman nodded.Between eleven and one that night, yeah. Stabs to the heart. Died pretty quickly. But whoever it was just kept right on stabbing them. It was damn vicious. Ive been doing this job a long time. It was one of the worst Ive seen. Sure, can I bring Vanessa? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. But... but one of the weapons in there isnt mine. You must have people leave you all the time for work in the private sector, Stone said. Okay, now he was going for the big fish as he put in his search parameters. Who hadnot left the building the night Ewes was killed? Before he hit the Return key to initiate the search he recognized there was a flaw in this methodology. If people had left in agroup at night, which they often did, it would only take one of their security swipe cards to send all of them down to the lobby. And you didnt need your card to leave the building after hours; you just hit an exit button set next to the doors. You also didnt need your card to enter the building during normal business hours, but you did need it to access the elevators. So the electronic count of the people coming and going really wouldnt be accurate. But the record of anyone’s coming into the building within the time frame the cops were looking at would clearly be relevant, since nogroup would be coming in between midnight and four o’clock. I dont know, I said, maybe youre right. I think that Max and Sally probably got themselves killed because they knew what Chad meant. I think I do, too, now. So maybe I should carry a gun around. So now that cat was out of the bag. If Potter knew, then it was all over the news. Devine hadnt checked his feed today. He would have to remedy that on the train ride in. Larkin was hired initially as a security guard on the building staff. He was licensed and had had such experience. Not long after that, our whole security system went blooey, and we didnt have a tech in the building. Larkin looked at it and said he could fix it. He got some tools from his car, and in half an hour had it up and running again. I figured someone who could do that with a very complex system at first sight was wasted as a security guard, so I introduced him to the head of our tech services department, and he hired him as an installer and trained him on our systems. He was a quick study, and in a week or ten days he was making calls to homes and offices where we had installed systems. That disappearance is the most significant clue in the whole case. Thats the break weve been waiting for. Why did that junk disappear? Mason asked. Well, thats right. Just drive up and tap on your horn. Ill be right out. My wife is a little worried. This afternoon. Youre making that as an accusation? Mason asked. I listened for five more minutes but didnt really hear; I talked for a few minutes but probably didnt make much sense. I just wanted to leave and join Abby...