and then , a mass of surgical tape and streaked with mercuro-chrome , washed and shaved and with a huge breakfast inside him , he was back in the car and back in the world and tiffany case had withdrawn into her old ironical and uncompromising manner and bond was making himself useful by watching for speed cops as leiter kept the car in the eighties down the endless dazzling road towards the distant cloudline that hid the high sierras .