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Mason patted her shoulder.Dont take it too hard, Della. I had to know... thats all. Gosh, I dont feel as if I ever wanted to sleep. Here we go. Round two. Chief, Della Street said solicitously, I can see that youre going to be up all night, pacing the floor, trying to get this thing straightened out. Now then, Mason said, I notice that when you took over this cab your sheet shows that you took it on at trip number nine-sixty-nine. Yeah. And he knew all about my background in the Army. They went into the coffee shop and bought theNew York Times and espressos, then took a table at the window, with a view of the parking lot and Acequia Madre. Yes, sir, aided by the beam of a flashlight. 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. Not that much fun alone. You could come along for the ride. Is that right? Once inside, Jess excused herself and said she was headed upstairs to lie down. She didnt seem interested in the presence of the chief. And he told you the name of my client? Judge Hoyts face deepened into a frown. You should know why, he said. “If your knowledge of legal ethics is so sketchy that you cant see why without my explanation, you had better study legal ethics. Id called Chicago two hours ago and given one of my staffers there the job of answering the phones and redirecting any serious media calls we got to my cell phone here. So far Id talked to two networks, including the news director of one of them. Hed made the best offer: seven minutes on the news. He was also planning a special called The Hate Merchants’ and would give Jess seven more minutes on that. That would be on Friday night, a lame night for TV, but given the blanket coverage the shooting was getting it might pick up a much bigger audience than the night usually got. In the meantime, we had Ted on the most highly rated morning show. Just be prepared to deal with the consequences, replied Devine as he tensed and bent slightly at the waist. Probably the same way NYPD did. Devine ran a finger in a vertical line over his neck. Straight-line ligature mark versus an inverted mark is the key telltale sign. Strangulation always has the first, hanging always has the second, because of gravitys force on the body. And the dead guys fingernails also had rope hemp in them. So what happened was the killer strangled him with a rope from behind and the victim fought back, digging into the rope and getting fibers under his fingernails. That also made for the straight-line ligature because no gravity at work. Then the killer strung him up with the same rope to make it look like suicide. But the Army CID agents found the straight-line under the inverted ligature mark. And the inverted was made postmortem, because the guy was already dead. They can tell when something happens postmortem, but then you know that already. No. He called the police. They told him to wait right there at the phone booth and theyd have a radio car there within five minutes...