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The "plant," in short, consisted in writing a long and
circumstantial story of the discovery of new evidence against the
ladies' poolroom, which so far had been scarcely mentioned in the
case. As Garrick laid it out, the story was to tell of a young
gambler who was said to be in touch with the district attorney, in
preference to saying the police.
In fact, his idea was to write up the whole gambling situation as
we knew it on lines that he suggested. Then a "fake" edition of
the paper was to be run off, bearing our story on the front page.
Only a few copies were to be printed, and they were to be
delivered to us. The thing had been done before by detectives, I
knew, and in this case Warrington was to foot the bill, which
might prove to be considerable.
At least it offered me some outlet for my energies during the rest
of the afternoon when the failure to receive any reports about the
two women whom we were seeking began to wear on my nerves.
It took some time to arrange the thing with those in authority on
the Star, but at last that was done and I hastened back to Garrick
at his office to tell him that all that remained to do was the
actual writing of the story.
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