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JUSTICE FOR SOME
by
Kate Wilhelm


Published by-Fawcett Books,.

JUSTICE FOR SOME

Kate Wilhelm

FAWCETT CREST NEW YORK

For Jennifer Mckay with much love.

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A Fawcett Crest Book Published by Ballantine Books Copyright (D) 1993 by
Kate Wilhelm All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine
Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and distributed in
Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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ISBN 0-449-22247-0

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First Ballantine Books Edition: June 1994

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THE TROUBLE WAS that Sarah Drexler did not look like a judge. She knew
it, and suspected that so did everyone who came before her in court. She
was forty-six and still had frizzy red hair, not as red as it used to
be, but unmistakably red, and she had freckles that she had long since
stopped fighting, and she was sturdy. Not fat, not even overweight, but
sturdy, built for endurance, Blaine used to say. She stood at her window
overlooking the parking lot at the courthouse, and held the blind back
to watch heat patterns rise and rise and rise.