Dobleman
The files seem in perfect order.
Starkweather
Thank God!
(During the following speech of Dobleman, Rutland says good-bye to Margaret and Dolores Ortega and makes exit.)
(Margaret and Dolores Ortega rise a minute afterward and go toward exit, throwing curious glances at the men but not disturbing them.)
(Dolores Ortega makes exit.)
(Margaret pauses in doorway a moment, giving a final anxious glance at the men, and makes exit.)
Dobleman
But they are not. The stenographer, Miss Standish, has confessed. For a long time she has followed the practice of taking two or three letters and documents at a time away from the office. Many have been photographed and returned. But the more important ones were retained and clever copies returned. Martinaw says that Miss Standish herself does not know and cannot tell which of the ones she returned are genuine and which are copies.