“No,” Mason said. “I bought her a drink. She drank it out of a glass.”

“You act as though someone had put a burr under your saddle blanket,” Drake said.

“Someone has.”

“Who?”

“I don’t know.”

“Well, can’t you take the burr out?”

Mason said, “I don’t want to. I prefer to start bucking.”

“What do you want me to do?”

“You have the name and address of that bookkeeper for The Hidden Home Society?”

“Yes.”