The Innocent Woman

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Steve Winslow frowned. “What’s the charge?”

Tracy Garvin pushed the long blonde hair off her forehead. “That’s not the point.”

“It may not be the point, but it’s certainly relevant. What’s the charge?”

“You have to understand,” Tracy said. “This is a respectable young woman. It’s hard to imagine her being accused of anything. I think as soon as you see her, you’ll agree that-”

“What’s the charge?”

Tracy took a breath. “Petty theft.”

Steve smiled. “I’m not surprised.”

“Oh?”

“If it were serious, you’d have said so. The more you stalled, the more trivial it had to be.”

“If you’ll just talk to her,” Tracy said.

“About a petty theft?”

“That’s not the point.”

“So you say,” Steve said. He leaned back in his desk chair, cocked his head. “Tracy, one of your chief jobs as my confidential secretary is to keep stuff like this from crossing my desk. I don’t have a normal law practice. I’m not looking for clients. If an offer I can’t refuse comes along, fine. But aside from that I have only one client. I’m administering Sheila Benton’s trust fund. Not a particularly demanding job, but mine own. I am not actively seeking trail work. Particularly a case involving petty theft.”

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