CHAPTER VA STEP UP
The newspapers made a big story out of the sensational escape of Phillida Kenley. Big, that is, in point of position and headlines, for in reality they had not much to go on. Nothing of the prisoner’s antecedents had transpired. The Girl of Mystery they termed her. The question was, who was her powerful backer? “Mr. Glanville” who had claimed friendship with her in court had vanished into thin air. Mr. Sam Leavitt, the noted criminal lawyer, was very much perturbed by his connection with the case. He knew nothing, nothing, he insisted. The man who had engaged him to appear for the girl was a stranger to him. He had worked on his sympathies with his tale of the falsely accused young lady. But never again! never again! Whoever she might be, the manner of the girl’s escape
