By this time my health had suffered; and when I looked at myself in the glass I was shocked to find how gaunt and hollow-cheeked I had grown.

My hair, which had up to this time been dark brown, had in a brief space turned quite gray over my ears, and whatever of good looks I had ever possessed had vanished utterly.

Gottlieb, too, had altered from a jovial, sleek-looking fellow into a nervous, worried, ratlike little man.

My creditors pressed me for their money and I was forced to close my house and live at a small hotel.
The misery of those days is something I do not care to recall.

We were both of us stripped, as it were, of everything at once--money, friends, health, and position; for we were the jest and laughing- stock of the very criminals who had before our downfall been our clients and crowded our office in their eagerness to secure our erstwhile powerful assistance.