title: The Grrrl of Limberlost (A Rain City Incident)
author:  Annie Pearson 
description: ANNIE PEARSON is a U.S. novelist. In addition to the "Rain City Incidents" series and other contemporary fiction, she also writes the Accidental Heretics medieval adventure series (as E.A. Stewart). She lives on Capitol Hill in Seattle.
zlib_text: The Case of the Waylaid Wolf
  Erle Stanley Gardner
  
  Chapter 1
  IT HAD started to rain that morning when Arlene Ferris parked her
  car in the fenced-off parking lot reserved for employees in the executive
  offices of the Lamont Rolling, Casting and Engineering Company.
  The precipitation was a cold, wintry rain, and Arlene rolled up the
  windows of her car, bundled her raincoat about her and walked briskly to
  the side entrance marked Employees Only.
  It was still raining at noon, but there was no necessity for Arlene to
  leave the building since the employees of the executive officers were
  able to use the underground tunnel to the cafeteria in the main building.
  At quitting time Arlene was in the midst of work on some
  specifications which she knew should go out in the night's mail. It would
  take her about thirty minutes to finish up, but since Arlene was never one
  to watch the clock on a secretarial job, she pounded away at the
  typewriter, heedless of the exodus of other employees.
  When she han