"Our case?"
"Yes, ours; Olive's, yours, mine. And now I am going to test your strength."
Claire did not look very strong just then.
"You saw Edward Percy to-day."
Claire Keith sprang to her feet. "How do you know that? And what has he to do with the case?"
"I know it because we, Mr. Percy and myself, came to this city by the same train, and I could easily surmise that his business here was with you."
"Well?" haughtily.
"Ah!" sadly; "you are almost angry with me now. But listen, Claire. Are you perfectly familiar with all the facts connected with poor Philip Girard's sad disgrace?"
"I think so," coldly.
"You know that he was convicted upon the testimony of Lucian Davlin and another?"