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The story in 11 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A brick, a red sweater, a wrong boy

   The first tale, The Shyster, opens with Terry McGurk throwing a brick through Froelich's butcher shop window and slipping away. Tony Mathusek, who happens to wear a red sweater too, runs straight into the arms of Officer Delany. Tony is a good son, and he did nothing at all.

   Delany does not care about the truth. He wrenches the boy's arm and tells Tony to keep quiet. The author explains that Delany is no monster. He is a small wheel in a large system of favors, free roast beef, and small envelopes.

   That system has a hungry arm. Delany signals Joey Simpkins, the runner for the lawyer Raphael Hogan. In court Tony feels a kind arm around him and believes he has found a friend.

   A whole machine can crush an innocent boy before anyone asks whether he threw the brick.

2. 2

   A fat man with kind eyes takes a widow's savings

   Raphael Hogan is the villain of the tale.

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3. 3

   Mr. Tutt takes up the case at last

   Ephraim Tutt is the tall, shabby senior partner of Tutt & Tutt, who smokes thin cigars and takes tea at five.

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4. 4

   A camel on the stairs of Washington Street

   The second tale, The Kid and the Camel, begins on a tiny street in lower Manhattan beside the old Syrian quarter.

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5. 5

   Murder, a Boston prosecutor, and Mr. Tutt's plan

   Soon Sardi Babu is dead, and Kasheed Hassoun sits in the Tombs charged with murder.

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6. 6

   Miss Beekman meets the brother of a fired maid

   The third tale, Contempt of Court, begins in a quiet Fifth Avenue drawing room.

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7. 7

   The witness chair and the blind goddess

   Miss Beekman leaves the prison grieved, and a detective overhears what she tells Mr. Tutt.

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8. 8

   Higgleby, two wives, and the clerk who wrote too well

   The fourth tale brings in Theophilus Higgleby, a large, flabby man shaped like a triangle.

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9. 9

   A letter in a will and a dinner on Twenty-third Street

   The fifth tale, That Sort of Woman, begins with the death of Payson Clifford, Senior, and the grief of his son, a Harvard man who thinks his father crude.

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10. 10

    A social war fought with summonses

    The sixth tale, You're Another, sets Mrs. Pierpont Pumpelly, newly rich from Athens, Ohio, against her cold neighbor Mrs. Rutherford Wells.

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11. 11

    Danny Lowry, the old horse doctor, and a jury that thinks for itself

    The last tale, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, introduces Danny Lowry, a tiny old Irishman with a gift for horses.

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