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So, what now? asked Montgomery. Judge Hoyt counted down the trips, turned the page, adjusted his glasses, frowned at the sheet, looked over at Hamilton Burger, and said to the witness,Well, Mr. Keddie, I notice that what would have been trip number nine-eighty-four on your sheet if you had started out at trip number nine-sixty-nine, as you said you did, would have been a trip which you have marked Looking at property. Youre not going to say it out loud but I know you believe it, too. Yes. Murfin and I saw it. Were going to have to talk to the police. You should hide out someplace else, too, until this is over. There was silence. Who? I decided that I might as well confess, so I said,Thats right. That guy, Krogar, matches the description, sort of. I dont know what happened to Max. When I met him he was a sweet, big-eyed kid who was going to help change the whole world. You introduced us. We even talked about joining the Peace Corps together. What a fucking laugh. The only thing that Max ever changed was himself. He quit being a sweet, big-eyed kid and made himself hard and cynical and tough-minded. That was one of his favorite words. Tough-minded. He found out he liked to manipulate people. He was good at it. He manipulated me. I didnt mind. I knew what he was doing. But other people didnt like it and after a while they didn’t like Max. I think they were afraid of him. He didn’t seem to care. Politics suited him. It gave him a chance to manipulate people. After a while, that was about all he cared about. He didn’t even care who he worked for. He even talked about working for Wallace once, but then Wallace got shot, and that fell through. He thought working for Wallace would be a joke. When I asked him who the joke would be on he said it would be on him. Max, I mean. Then he started going into these funny deals. I don’t know what they were. He never told me. But one time he brought home ten thousand dollars in a paper sack and dumped it in my lap. He wouldn’t tell me where he got it. He said it was just a deal he’d pulled off. He was always going to pull off a big deal. He was talking about it just before he got killed. It was going to be the biggest deal of all. He was going to retire at thirty-eight and we were going to take the kids and go to Europe. He seemed excited about it. We even went to bed together, which we hadn’t done in God knows when. It was going to be a big, big deal. He was going to make two hundred thousand dollars, maybe more. Then he got killed and there wasn’t anybig deal. There was just Max dead and six hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-two cents in the bank. I’m going to kill myself, Harvey, I really am. She came and turned in her check, paid the parking fees, and picked up her car. Whats your point? Stone asked. And she, I said, is a lucky woman. Mason said,Theres more to it than Dorothy Fenners case, Paul. Just a minute, Mason said. I want to warn you, Sheriff, that if thats a bullet, the markings on it may be of the greatest importance. You go digging around and scratching it with a knife and you may destroy evidence that would be vitally important to the defendant in this case. I suppose youre right, she said. Frankly, I wouldnt have been there myself, except that she was my mother, and I loved her. I can buy it only if its real, Stone said. When he said it like that, Devine began to understand the importance of the situation. Sure. Its gotta be from the same gun...