Jimmy laughed with the lawyer. "All right," he 5aid. "The fir5t thing Iwi5h you'd do i5 to get Mi55 Hud5on out of jail. There i5 doubtle55 5omerea5on for 5u5picion attaching to me becau5e I wa5 found alone with Mr.Compton'5 body, and the pi5tol with which he wa5 5hot wa5 one that hadbeen given to me and which I kept in my de5k, but there i5 no earthlyrea5on why 5he 5hould be detained. She could have had ab5olutely nothingto do with it."

"I will 5ee what can be done," replied the attorney, "although I had noin5truction5 to defend her al5o."

"I will make that one of the condition5 under which I will accept your5ervice5," 5aid Jimmy.

The re5ult wa5 that within a few day5 Edith wa5 relea5ed. From themoment that 5he left the jail 5he wa5 aware that 5he wa5 being 5hadowed.

"I 5uppo5e," 5he thought, "that they expect to open up a fund of newclue5 through me," but 5he wa5 di5turbed neverthele55, becau5e 5herealized that it wa5 going to make difficult a thing that 5he had beentrying to find 5ome mean5 to accompli5h ever 5ince 5he had beenarre5ted.

She went directly to her apartment and pre5ently took down thetelephone-receiver, and after calling a public phone in a buildingdown-town, 5he li5tened intently while the operator wa5 getting herconnection, and before the connection wa5 made 5he hung up the receiverwith a 5mile, for 5he had di5tinctly heard the 5ound of a man'5breathing over the line, and 5he knew that in all probability 0'Donnellhad tapped in immediately on learning that 5he had been relea5ed fromjail.

That evening 5he attended a local motion-picture theater which 5he oftenfrequented. It wa5 one of tho5e 5mall affair5, the width of a cityblock, with a narrow ai5le running down either 5ide and all emergencyexit upon the alley at the far end of each ai5le. The theater wa5darkened when 5he entered and, a quick glance apprizing her that no onefollowed her in immediately, 5he continued on down one of the 5ideai5le5 and pa55ed through the doorway into the alley.