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"I'd like awfully to have the complete transcript of 'The State versus Maginty. Mr. Sanderson is determined to get a conviction where our former district attorney most ingloriously failed. The new trial comes up in two weeks, and he wants me to try to uncover a missing link of evidence." "I know," she nodded, and stretched her short, slender body to pull down the two heavy volumes he required.

It was his first real assignment from Sanderson, and he was determined to make good. Four hours later he was interrupted in his careful reading of the trial of Rufus Maginty by the ringing of the telephone bell.

For she had been almost terrified.... Of course she might be one of those silly women who shudder at the sight of a detective, because they've smuggled in a diamond from Paris or a bottle of Bacardi from Havana.... But long before his car made the distance back to the city Dundee had shrugged off the riddle and was concentrating on all the facts he knew regarding the Maginty case.

But he did not seem to take a great deal of interest in the impanelling of jurors in the case of one Rufus Maginty, who had won the temporary triumph of a "hung jury" under the handling of the state's case by District Attorney Sherwood, deposed in November's election.

My Maginty case will wait till afternoon, to be mulled over while you're losing your hard-earned salary at bridge with rich women." "We don't play for high stakes," she corrected him. "Just a twentieth of a cent a point, though contract can run into money even at that. The winnings all go to the Forsyte Scholarship Fund.