“Yes?”
“They all said they could not take my case.”
“Could not take your case!” she cried. “Why not?”
“They made different excuses. But their excuses were not their real reason.”
“And what was that?”
The old man flushed yet more painfully.
“I guess you do not fully realize the situation, Katherine. I don’t need to tell you that a wave of popular feeling against political corruption is sweeping across the country. This is the first big case that has come out in Westville, and the city is stirred up over this as it hasn’t been stirred in years. The way the Express——You saw the Express?”
Her hands instinctively clenched.
“It was awful! Awful!”