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pistol with which he was shot was one that had been given to me and which I
kept in my desk, but there is no earthly reason why she should be detained. She
could have had absolutely nothing to do with it."
"I will see what can be done," replied the attorney, "although I had no instructions
to defend her also."
"I will make that one of the conditions under which I will accept your services,"
said Jimmy.
The result was that within a few days Edith was released. From the moment that
she left the jail she was aware that she was being shadowed.
"I suppose," she thought, "that they expect to open up a fund of new clues
through me," but she was disturbed nevertheless, because she realized that it
was going to make difficult a thing that she had been trying to find some means
to accomplish ever since she had been arrested.
She went directly to her apartment and presently took down the telephone-
receiver, and after calling a public phone in a building down-town, she listened
intently while the operator was getting her connection, and before the connection
was made she hung up the receiver with a smile, for she had distinctly heard the
sound of a man's breathing over the line, and she knew that in all probability
O'Donnell had tapped in immediately on learning that she had been released from
jail.
That evening she attended a local motion-picture theater which she often
frequented. It was one of those small affairs, the width of a city block, with a
narrow aisle running down either side and an emergency exit upon the alley at
the far end of each aisle. The theater was darkened when she entered and, a
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