Yeah, and your underwear, as well, I bet. And what are youinto when youre not hanging out with him? I thought that it was awful nice of her to understand. Fred said,Any good? He seemed to latch on to this line of conversation to escape, for at least a few seconds, what was crushing him. Really? Now? So, Mason said, we try to reconstruct the conditions under which that first shot was fired. In all probability, Lutts had his back turned. You will be welcome, she said. Mason got up off the edge of the bed and began pacing the floor.You havent told anyone about this? The other day we had a technician in the house to go over my security system, Stone said. Did you hear about that? Not with either one of our lives. Mason said,Paul, your stomach is bothering you. Youre living on greasy hamburgers and half-fried onions. Youre eating entirely too much fried food. Youre eating at irregular hours. You need a good rest — start taking it. Any chance you were mistaken? I took out my tin box, rolled a cigarette, lit it, and thought about Warner Baxter Gallops. I had first met him in the Birmingham bus station in 1964. He and Ward Murfin and I had met there for lunch because back in64, despite what the Supreme Court said, there still werent too many public places in Birmingham where two whites and a black could eat without somebody kicking up a fuss. And Murfin and I werent in Birmingham to desegregate lunch counters. We were there to pick up eight votes. We all knew Sara, everybody in this room. But with respect to the reason he had come here, the results were disappointing. Why Ewes had mentioned the play to Stamos, he still didnt know. He knew that Ewes had walked into Stamoss office and told her aboutWaiting for Godot, encouraging her to check it out. Well, Devinehad checked it out. And he still understood not one damn thing about why it was important to Ewes, or whether it was connected to her death or whatever was going on at Cowl and Comely..