"Knights Road."
"Knights Road? You sure?"
Dugan nodded.
Mallison said, "Hell, man, that's impossible. Knights Road starts outside the town and runs through the old quarry."
"Oh—" Dugan looked flustered. "Well, there's a new vention."
"A new what?"
"Vention—" Dugan stopped. Then he said, "A new development. That's a slang word."
Mallison said, "Why, man, I was back home less than a month ago. Wasn't any development then."
Belcher said, "Maybe it's very new."
Dugan didn't say anything more. I hadn't listened much because I was busy watching his fingers. He had one hand partially concealed under the table, but I could see that he was fumbling nervously with an odd contraption that looked like a piece of old clock.