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Well, who is she?" demanded the lieutenant.
A jane who used to hang out at Feinheimer's. She has been runnin' around with
this bird. They tell me over there that Compton hired her on this fellow's
recommendation. Get hold of the Lizard now, and you'll have the whole bunch."
Thus did Sergeant Patrick O'Donnell solve the entire mystery with Sherlockian
ease and despatch.
At Jimmy's preliminary hearing he was held to the grand jury, and on the
strength of the circumstantial evidence against him that body voted a true bill.
Edith Hudson, against whom there was no evidence of any nature, was held as a
witness for the State, and a net was thrown out for the Lizard which dragged in
nearly every pickpocket in town except the man they sought.
Jimmy had been in jail for about a week when he received a visitor. A turnkey
brought her to his cell. It was Harriet Holden. She greeted him seriously but
pleasantly, and then she asked the turnkey if she might go inside.
"
It's against the rules, miss," he said, "but I guess it will be all right." He recalled
that the sheriff had said that the girl's father was a friend of his, and so assumed
that it would be safe to relax the rules in her behalf. He had been too long an
employee of the county not to know that rules are often elastic to the proper
pressure.
"I have been wanting to talk to you," said the girl to Jimmy, "ever since this
terrible thing happened. Somehow I can not believe that you are guilty, and there
must be some way in which you can prove your innocence."
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