This certainly looked plausible, and I acknowledge that few except my father, who never trusted without trusting entirely, would have acted so imprudently.
"'Where is the clerk who was in your office at the time ?" inquired my uncle.
The lawyer looked somewhat discomposed at this question.
"'Why do you ask ?'he inquired abruptly.
"'Because,' was the reply, 'his evidence is very important to us.

My brother states that he was present when the deposit was made.' "'I don't know where he is,' said the lawyer.

'He was too dissipated to remain in my office, and I accordingly discharged him.' "My uncle suspected that the clerk had been bribed to keep silence, and for additional security sent off to some distant place.
"Nothing could be done.

Strong as our suspicions, and absolute as was our conviction of the lawyer's guilt, we had no recourse.

But from that time I devoted my life to the exposure of this man.