"You got along, did you?" Jim said.

Letourneau looked irritated. "What I said."

Jim pretended to consult a note on his pad. "That why you turned the Kanuyaq Land Trust into the IRS for using donations to politic instead of to buy land?"

What? Kate almost said, and then Jim caught her eye and she thought better of it.

Letourneau shrugged. "They were using money to lobby the legislature and Congress on environmental issues. Money raised specifically to underwrite land purchases in the Park. That's just wrong." He gazed at Jim benignly. "It was my public duty as a citizen to report that to the proper authorities."

Kate thought of what Dina's reaction would have been to that statement and now understood completely why they had come to John's lodge.

"I also heard the judge kicked the case," Jim said.

Letourneau shrugged again, and this time he smiled, too. He had regained his equilibrium. Kate had the uneasy and entirely unwarranted suspicion that it was because they had missed something, something he didn't want them to know, that he was glad that the conversation had turned into this channel, and that there were others they could have taken that would have been far more dangerous to him. "He disagreed with my attorneys. What can you do?"

"I also heard—"

"You hear a hell of a lot, now don't you?"

Unperturbed, Jim began again. "I also heard that you fought the increase in acreage to the wildlife refuge of the Park included in the d-2 lands bill."

"So? More wildlife refuge equals less hunting. I surely to heaven wasn't alone in that."

"Put you up against Dina and Ruthe."

"So did a lot of things. Nature of the businesses we were in, respectively."

Jim pondered for a moment. "Dina Willner thought enough of you at one time to marry you. Think she might have left you anything in her will?"

"What might that be," John Letourneau said very dryly, "maybe a half interest in Camp Teddy?" He laughed. "I guess you don't hear everything after all. Ruthe and Dina have joint rights of survivorship in Camp Teddy. When they're both dead, it goes to the Kanuyaq Land Trust."

"You've seen their wills?"

"No. Dina told me, back when we were married. Can't imagine they changed them. Now," John Letourneau said, rising to his feet and speaking with an air of finality, "I have told you more about my personal business than I have told anyone else, ever, and I still can see no way that it will help you convict someone already in custody. So I will say good night to you both."

As they left, Kate had the distinct impression that John Letourneau had learned more from them than they had from him. There was no reason for it to bother her, but it did.