The only bright news to him was the report from the hospital that Rao-Singh's condition was improving and that the doctors now believed that he would recover.
Gordon Kendall was an excellent lawyer of long practice. He didn't mind difficult cases that taxed his highly developed wits, but he could not help but regard the case of Dudley Drake as rather hopeless from the start. The chain of guilt seemed irrefutable. There was nothing to indicate that his client had not done the shooting as he declared except the reluctance of Gordon Kendall, a shrewd judge of men, to believe such a cleancut altogether splendid fellow as Drake could have invaded a man's house and shot him down and the reluctance of Dudley to discuss the case when he got down to specific details and especially when the name of Carmelita Drake was involved.
Kendall had met Carmelita at the preliminary hearing. Even in her present low physical and mental state, she was a strikingly beautiful woman. Did she know more about her husband's actions on that fatal night than she cared to, or he would permit her to, tell? Drake had insisted that she should not be questioned. When the indictment was brought in against her husband, she had nearly fainted. But then any wife might.
