The Cradle Will Fall

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IF HER mind had not been on the case she had won, Katie might not have taken the curve so fast, but the intense satisfaction of the guilty verdict was still absorbing her. It had been a close one. Roy O'Connor was one of the top attorneys in New Jersey. The defendant's confession had been suppressed by the court, a major blow for the prosecution. But still she had convinced the jury that Teddy Copeland had viciously murdered eighty-year-old Abigail Rawlings during a robbery.

Miss Rawlings' sister, Margaret, was in court to hear the verdict. "You were wonderful, Mrs. DeMaio," she'd said to Katie afterward. "You look like a young college girl. I never would have thought you could do it. But you proved every point; you made them feel what he did to Abby." Her eyes filled with tears. "I keep thinking how frightened Abby must have been. It would have been awful if he'd gotten away with it"

"He didn't get away with it!" Katie said. The memory of that reassurance distracted her now, made her press her foot harder on the accelerator. As she rounded the curve, the car fishtailed on the sleet-covered road.

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