Justice is a woman

The two men who stepped out of the elevator ahead of Larry dropped their voices and talked in a whisper as if they were in the safe-deposit vault of a bank. Larry recognized the...

Arthur put down the phone and came in to bum a cigarette from Larry. “That was Tom, looking for some free legal advice,” he said with an easy, self-contented smile.

Bemrose bore down on his palms which he had flattened on the table. “When the Administration finds out that I okayed it--and she won’t hesitate to let it be known that I was her...

“For heaven’s sake, stop fussing. You’ll rub off the finish,” said a plump red-faced woman. She giggled in an uncontrolled staccato. “He’s always at things,” she apologized, sha...

“What’s so goddam wonderful about being able to use your head? You were all exposed to an education, and an expensive education. If any of you had _wanted_ to work--” Bemrose th...

Usually Larry felt lost when he came home and didn’t find Bessie, but tonight he was glad there was a meeting of her first aid course at the Red Cross so that he could be alone.

Bemrose was bringing the anecdotist over to meet Lucy, and Steve Holmes pulled out hastily. Larry followed Steve as soon as he had grabbed a drink off a passing tray, and in a s...

Larry could tell that something was cooking with Cy. They called him total-recall O’Malley. He had a deceptive baby roundness--turned-up nose, second chin, football shoulders an...

“When the Army finds out about your fantastic memory, you won’t have to worry whether the Idlewild Hotel Corporation impleads an insurance company,” Larry said. “They’ll stick y...

She withdrew to her corner of the cab and tossed a burned-out match on the rubber mat, taking jerky puffs at her cigarette. The wide rouged mouth made a nice contrast with the g...

“Right now the War comes first,” Larry agreed. He saw that they were curving off the parkway into a drive that circled the entrance to the airport. “I’d let him know how it is w...

“Janice always worries about people being able to handle power when they get it,” Larry explained. “I don’t think she’s particularly concerned about Arthur, but--well, she worri...

The rain had quit by the time Larry finished shaving and went out. On Collins Avenue he passed men in khaki counting “Hup, hoop, heep, horp” as they swung along, their brown lea...

“She might have been right,” Arthur agreed. “I never understood what I wanted from her and wasn’t getting. It came to me one afternoon when I was staring at the blank white spac...

“You think _you_ were poor,” Arthur protested. “I still can’t spend fifteen cents for a shine without feeling guilty. Do you know how many miles I used to walk to save fifteen c...

“Five years of preparation,” Bemrose said. “I put five years into that case.” He rocked angrily in his chair. “I’ll be damned if I tell Jorgennsen how to try it.”

Larry walked to the counsel table a few feet in front of the bench where Arthur would present his argument. A lawyer speaking from behind the lectern stood at eye level with the...

“He wasn’t intentionally vicious,” Bemrose admitted. “His trouble was that he believed the best in people. Capital offered no threat to labor, and labor would smarten up in time...

During the grim winter of ’43 when more planes were put into the English skies than returned to landing strips bedded in the Oxford-Cambridge villages, in the winter the Red Arm...

“A friend of mine used to live in your room,” Bemrose explained. “He’s dead now, but I remember him talking about the house and the neighborhood. In his time there were ships in...

Arthur had on a conventional blue business suit that fitted him. The absence of his loose, conspicuous tweeds jolted Larry. In smooth cloth which hugged his shoulders, neck, and...

“Maybe if he misses her enough, he’ll make up his mind. You’d think he would know by now. Didn’t you say someone named Holmes, an artist, used to be crazy about her?” Bessie ask...