ottlieb and met him by appointment at
a hotel, where we had a heated colloquy, in which he seemed to
think that I was totally to blame for the failure of our attempt.
He was hardly himself, so worn out was he with anxiety, not having
heard from me until he had read of Hawkins's apprehension in Boston;
but, now that I was able to talk things over with him, we agreed
that any effort to spirit our client away would have been equally
unsuccessful, and that the one course remaining for us to pursue
was to put on as bold a front as possible and let the law take its
course. It was equally useless for us to try to conceal our own
whereabouts, for all our movements were undoubtedly watched; and
the best thing to do, it seemed to us, was to go as usual to our
office and to act as nearly as possible as if nothing had happened.

We were not mistaken as to the intended course of the district
attorney; for, when we visited the Tombs for the purpose of
interviewing Hawkins, we were informed by the warden that he had
obtained other counsel and that our services were no longer required.
This was an indisputable indication that he had gone over to the
enemy; and we at once began to take such steps as lay in our power
to prepare for our defence in case an indictment was found against
us. And now we were treated to a dose of the medicine we had
customarily administered to our own clients; for, when we tried to
secure counsel, we found that one and all insisted upon our paying
over in advance even greater fees as retainers than those which we
had demanded in like cases. I had never taken the trouble to lay
by anything, since I had always had all the ready cash I needed.
Gottlieb was in the same predicament, and in our distress we called
upon Dillingham to furnish us with the necessary amount; but, to
our amazement and horror, our erstwhile client refused to see us
or come to our office, and we definitely realized that he, too,
had sought safety in confession and would be used by the prosecution
in its effort to place the crime of perjury at our door.

From the moment of Hawkins's arrest the tide turned against us.
There seemed to be a general understanding throughout the city that
the district attorney intended to make an example in our case, and
to show that it was quite as possible to convict a member of the
bar as any one else. He certainly gave us no loophole of escape,
for he secured every witness that by any possibility we might