"
"Will you accept a retaining fee, even if not active in my case?"
asked Mr. Dewey.
"No," was the emphatic answer.
A dark, despairing shadow fell over the miserable man's face, and he
turned himself away from the only being towards whom he had looked
with any hope in this great extremity of his life.
Mr. Wallingford retired with pity in his heart. The spectacle was
one of the most painful he had ever witnessed. How was the mighty
fallen!--the proud brought low! As he walked from the prison, the
Psalmist's striking words passed through his mind--"I have seen the
wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree;
yet he passed away, and lo, he was not."
When the day of trial came, Mr. Wallingford appeared as counsel for
the creditors of the Clinton Bank, on the side of the prosecution.
He did not show any eagerness to gain his case against the prisoner;
but the facts were so strong, and all the links in the chain of
evidence so clear, that conviction was inevitable. A series of
frauds and robberies was exposed, that filled the community with
surprise and indignation; and when the jury, after a brief
consultation, brought in a verdict of guilty, the expression of
delight was general.
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