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THE TWO went straight down to the office of the district attorney. “I must send a message to Mr. Whiting at once,” Fleming Stone said to a secretary there.
“Mr. Whiting is in the Court of General Sessions, just below this office here, and I’d rather not disturb him. Can your business wait?”
“It cannot,” declared Stone, “not an instant. Please send this message immediately. Mr. Whiting will not be annoyed at the interruption.”
As Fleming Stone and Fibsy entered the courtroom District Attorney Whiting was reading the note in which the detective asked the privilege of speaking to him a moment, and partially told why.
At that instant also, the jury were filing into the box prepared to give their verdict.
“Gentlemen of the jury,” said the clerk of the court,
