“Celinda will get in touch with Roy Hungerford and bring things to a head tonight. She’s clever, and she wants him. She’s a shrewd campaigner.”
“That,” Mason said, “is exactly what I figured she’d do. Now, I happen to know that of all the things Roy Hungerford detests, a woman who tries to force things is his pet abomination. Designing females have been trying to give him the rush act ever since he was old enough to wear long pants. If he’s hesitating between Celinda, who’s in his set, and Belle, who’s not, Celinda will wreck all of her chances trying to rush things-and the beautiful part of it is that it will be all her doing.”
Della Street said, “Well, I hope she cooks her goose to a cinder!”
Mason opened the door to Paul Drake’s room and said, “Paul, I have something else for you.”
“What is it?” Drake asked.
“You said that Morgan Eves was acquitted of murder about two months ago in Los Angeles?”
“Yes.”
“And,” Mason went on, “Baldwin Van Densie defended him?”
“Yes.”
“Well,” Mason said, “Moar was on a jury in Los Angeles about two months ago. It was a murder case. Van Densie was defending. Moar took a dislike to Van Densie, claimed he was putting up a sell-out defense. The D. A. had a pushover with the other jurors, but Moar went to the bat in the jury room and whipped them into line. You might have your Los Angeles office look up the records and see if Moar was on Morgan Eves’s jury.”