does "dog"here has anything special meaning? He’d have taken a tour inside Bluff House himself if the client had directed him, and he’d have taken his lumps if he’d been caught at it. But he wouldn’t have laid hands on a woman. Time to put cards on the table, he decided, or for the client to find a new dog, because this dog didn’t hunt for clients who knocked women around. Duncan snatched his cell phone off the charger, made the call. He was just pissed enough not to give a good damn about the hour. “Yeah, it’s Duncan, and yeah, I got something. What I’ve got is a county deputy questioning me over a break-in and an attack on a woman at Bluff House tonight.”