Dating acronyms

Yes, but Im a sweet guy. This is really your last chance to ask for something and, maybe, get it. I think the word youre looking for, Stone said, is totaled. As consultants, Murfin said. We got one twenty-eight a day and an office and some pencils and some yellow pads and what we did was think up questions. We thought up some pretty good ones. By the look on her face, Devine wished he hadnt mentioned that. Can you tell me what youre trying to do, Perry? Whys that? So now, Mason said, we go talk with Mrs. Herbert Doxey. But first we telephone Paul Drake and find out which one of the possible suspects knew nothing about shooting a gun. Our murderer, whoever he was, must have missed that first shot at a distance of hardly more than ten feet. Where were you at the time? Mason faced the sheriff and said,By using a waterglass, you saw this womans purse lying on the bottom of the bay? In his recurring dream there was Lieutenant Blankenship on a morgue slab with his throat destroyed. The other person he always saw was Captain Hawkins lying in the Afghanistan mountains unconscious after the battle between the two. It hadnt been much of a fight, actually. Hawkins had allowed himself to grow too soft. And maybe his guilt was a bit too much for him to put up a spirited defense against Devines ferocious attack. The thing was, Devine thought the man would wake up and limp back to camp. If he had tried to file charges against Devine, he was going to raise the whole murder scenario to anyone he could. Only the man didnt wake up. I knew by experience about how far it would be possible to fling an ordinary weapon of ordinary weight under those circumstances, so I went out to the place where I thought such a weapon might have landed. Sure enough, I found a track in the moist soil, indicating that something had struck, bounced, then slid under some loose, moist soil. I probed in this soil and found the revolver. Murfin and I headed for the cement walk that split the narrow, shallow front yard in half and led to the house. The yard had a few patches of brown grass that seemed to have given up and died in the August heat. The rest of the yard was hard-packed brown dirt in which nothing could grow. For decoration there were a few empty bottles that nobody had bothered to collect yet. I have no idea what youre talking about, said Chilton heatedly. Doxey said,He doesnt confide in me. I was merely giving you the rumor which has resulted in a whole flock of phone calls. Ive been trying to find him myself. So all that the signatures on this envelope mean is that the men who were with you, at your suggestion, signed an empty envelope on the theory that they could in that way identify the purse when it was introduced in evidence, and left it to you to put the purse in the envelope, at a later date. Anytime. Stone went inside through the office door. Thirty-Eight Yes, boss? Do the police have any leads as to who killed Sara?.