The Self Defender

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I, John Conway of Conway, Conway, Heimer and Metz, was the natural choice as a defense attorney. She could afford the best, and our families had moved in the same social circles for three generations. She was, after all, Ellen Rackway, nee Ellen Featherstone.

If her maiden name means nothing to you, that isn’t my fault, dear fellow. It merely proves you are unacquainted with the financial pages and the social register.

Knowing her, I would have defended her if she couldn’t have paid a dime. She was a young woman of spunk and determination. She was not afraid to watch the chips fall where they will. She believed in fair exchange, tooth for tooth. Her code included the rule of seeing anything through to its natural, proper, and inevitable end, and she had always lived up to her code.

Lest you jump to the conclusion that her emotional discipline was inhuman, let me hasten to add that in her lifetime she had committed one very human mistake.

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