Kendall suffered another misgiving when he learned that the prosecution of Dudley's case was to be in charge of David Banning. The regular district attorney of the county was away upon a vacation, and Banning was the special attorney put in charge in his absence. Kendall had opposed Banning before. He was a slight, dark, snarling man with vaulting ambitions and no scruples. His system was to win cases no matter how justice suffered in the process. Kendall believed privately that the special attorney's professional honor was not above reproach. Rao-Singh, now recovered enough to take an interest in the case, would have in Banning an ideal tool through which to work his revenge upon Dudley.
