CHAPTER XXVI
That morning Geraldine Brand entered the portals of C. B. & D. a very pre- occupied young woman. She had left her home somewhat troubled that the case of Cranston v. Cranston, Brewer Co-Respondent, had been listed for hearing sooner than she or Billy had anticipated. Though she was concerned more with the possible unpleasant publicity than with the outcome of the case.
Billy, however, was driven completely into the background of her thoughts when, in the train on her journey to the city, she read an account of Basil Williams's activities of the previous evening. Her's was a morning paper that Tydvil had not seen. In addition to the story of the dastardly assault on Mr. Edwin Muskat, whose nose was, fortunately, not broken, but very painfully injured; her paper also told of a
