 Who is the Old Man Casey refers to in the first paragraph?
Well, Casey Ritter may be a lot of things we won't mention, but he doesn't rat on his clients. So there I was, closeted with the ten members of the S.S. Customs Court, getting set to hear the gavel fall and the head man intone the sentence that would take me out of circulation for a long, long time. "Aw, hell, judge, that's just one of those screwy fairy tales! How could any—" The senior judge rapped ferociously, and I skidded to a halt. Casey Ritter lost his nerve, and along with it, the chance of a lifetime. I could hardly wait for morning to come, so that I could pry more information out of Pard Hoskins.
 God
 The S.S. Customs Court Judge  God  Pard Hoskins  The Experimentalist Doctor