“Obviously,” Mason said, “one does not get messages from a dead man.”
“You think that he is dead then?”
Mason said, “The circumstantial evidence uncovered by the police would point that way.”
“He was alive and well at nine o’clock last night.”
“You know that?”
“Yes.”
“You talked with him?”
“Yes.”
“Over the telephone?”
“I don’t care to answer that question.”