Joe started to smile. "Look who's talking."
"So, who's watching?" Martin asked.
"Somebody is," Joe said. "Ox wouldn't have told me if he wasn't worried. FBI? CIA?"
"Martin's a commie pinko," Art said. "Is he on the list?"
"Should be," Joe said.
"What about Morgan? And Gino?"
"Subversives for sure. Down the Pentagon!" Joe raised his cup.
"Down the Pentagon!" echoed across the valley.
"O.K., Patrick," Amber said. "You can turn off the tape recorder."
Patrick took a paper bag from his pack and held up a block of cheddar.
He shook it by his ear.
"Wasn't on," he said.