Rage of Angels

“Who gave you the yellow canary, Miss Parker?”

“Have you ever met Michael Moretti?”

“Did you know that Di Silva was pla

“The District Attorney says he’s going to have you disbarred. Are you going to fight it?”

To each question Je

On the CBS evening news they called her “Wrong-Way Parker,” the girl who had gone off in the wrong direction. An ABC newsman referred to her as the “Yellow Canary.” On NBC, a sports commentator compared her to Roy Riegels, the football player who had carried the ball to his own team’s one-yard line.

In Tony’s Place, a restaurant that Michael Moretti owned, a celebration was taking place. There were a dozen men in the room, drinking and boisterous.

Michael Moretti sat alone at the bar, in an oasis of silence, watching Je

Lawyers everywhere discussed the Je

She had lasted exactly four hours.

She had been born in Kelso, Washington, a small timber town founded in 1847 by a homesick Scottish surveyor who named it for his home town in Scotland.

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Her father always had time for her, while her mother, beautiful and restless, was mysteriously busy and seldom at home. Je

After school Je

When Je

Boys were interested in her, but she seldom went out. When her father would ask her why, she would reply, “They’re all so young, Papa.” She knew that one day she would marry a lawyer like her father.

On Je

The next year, when it came time to go to college, Je

“We’re going into partnership, Je

When she was graduated she enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle to study law. During the first year of school, while Je

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There were great jazz clubs in Seattle, and Je

Afternoons, Je

There were two boys who pursued Je

The seasons were crisp and wet and windy and it seemed to rain all the time. Je

In spring the girls blossomed out in their bright cotton dresses. There were six fraternities in a row at the university, and the fraternity brothers would gather on the lawn and watch the girls go by, but there was something about Je

Every summer Je

He died when Je

After the funeral Je

Because of her high scholastic average, Je

Warren Oakes, her criminal law professor, told her: “That’s a real tribute, young lady. It’s very difficult for a woman to get into a good law firm.”

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