Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 6, 1923 — page 130: what you’re looking at

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== This was directed against Christoplier Se Sidney, a well-known art dealer in whose innocuous replies Claudia could find no _ reason for the attitude of the belligerent- ~ mannered assistant disirict attorney, but a =. knowing smile flitted across Dreyer’s face __ and in answer to her questioning look he —— whispered tersely: — — Sells ‘his pictures to your ‘friends, Se doesn’t he? — Prosecution won't take a = chance on his hurting trade.” ge Juror number five eventuated in the per- gon of a millionaire whose exploits in the sporting world were so celebrated that a _ ripple of amusement ran through the spec- ____ tators when he described himself as a “ dog == fancier.” - flashily garbed steckbroker and a powerful, ___ black-browed, shambling youth who admit- -__ted in a rich brogue that he drove a motor ruck by profession and preference, were - all three accepted before the noon recess, = _ with intervals between when the successful. 22 claimants to exemption. trickled through one - legal crevice or another. — Going splendidly, Mrs. ___ splendidly!” Dreyer announced when after —___@ luncheon that she could not touch Claudia = reappeared with her guard in the antercom. -- The jury box two-thirds full and not a - Challenge from our side yet! pose!” --__ “Look out for the next session, thous. z S= Rowe warned. “I recognize a few of the -— talesmen left and if one or two of them got by our challenge the best we could hope for = weld be a disagreement.” Claudia listened in bewilderment. So _ character of a melting pot and somehow ____ She found her interest waning as that dual sense of detachment increased. She saw —__ herself as a mere puppet, the centfal figure, ____ to be sure, in this grim drama, but only a __ figure, her fellow actors absorbed in their own parts, Save for perfunctory courtesy a istence and even Uncle Matt’s tone was z oe SS her, a anxious, ee SS acteristic. bhmtness. them. We've put over one or two good - A baker, stolid and rotund, a— Hamersley, Couldn’t get — = a better lot of men together for our De her. = = = : many nationalities, and classes, and varied —__‘Interests were represented already that the — jury box had assumed to her mind the Dreyer seemed to have forgotten her ex- = absent and preoccupied now when he ad- ARGOSY-ALLST ORY WEEKLY. ing adviser and friend ot that. dark —— on the previous day lost in the urbane but : = grimly alert barrister. “The D. A. slipped in a few of his pet : = unwashed on this panel, did her” Dreyer had responded to Rowe’s remark with char- “We'll take care of things on him ourselves! Number two— Fay, the fat fellow with a chain of shoe stores—happens to be run ragged by private dicks employed by his suspicious wife, and he’ll fall with tears of hopeless regret for the angelic faith bestowed by our client on her husband, while number five—Eddie Ankers, the millionaire sport—was crazy about just one girl that anybody has ever — been able to discover, She died a couple of years ago and she was the image of Mrs. Hamersley here, although a less refined type, He'll ick. at her and see an idealized double of his old love, and when we turn on the sob stuff there es be anything to it as far as he is concerned Claudia- eyed the dry, aca) little as-_ sociate counsel in growing wonder. Was he omniscient, that he could know the hidden trials and sorrows of these two out of all that panel and plan coolly to make capital of them? _ Matthew Rowe voiced her surprise for = fine the devil do you know that?” he demanded, adding: “If we go on at this rate the box will be full by ASS and then Kitchell will have his first fling. We may get a line from that on whether — or not they’ve got Zorn and are going to spring him as a star witness. That fellow is a mystery! keep out of their clutches all this time—if _How he has ‘managed to he has!—is beyond me, and my men had to sive him up as a bad job. I never took any stock in Stephen Munson’s notion, of course, but I’m surprised that the boy = hasn’t reported one way or the other to us before the case opened.” That thought had been in the fae ———— Claudia’s mind for several days past and. she realized now that it had been Stephen’s face for which with unacknowledged hope — she had looked among the spectators that DE He e hae said with all the fervor — TA = = -€o micbooks