ger
will be the response. Time also is necessary to enable the ancestral
stocking to be grudgingly withdrawn from its hiding-place and its
contents disgorged, or to allow the pathetic representations of
his nearer relatives to work upon the callous heart of old Uncle
John, who once held a city office and has thus plenty of money.
The object of the lawyer being to hang on to the client until he
has got his money, it follows that if the latter is locked up in
jail it is all the better for the lawyer, unless it be expedient
to let him out to raise funds. Thus criminal attorneys are not,
as a rule, particularly anxious to secure the release of a client
from jail. Solitary confinement increases his apprehension and
discomfort and renders him more complacent about paying well for
liberty. The English king who locked up the money-lender and had
one of his teeth drawn out each day until he made the desired loan
knew his business. Once the fellow is out of jail--pfft! He is
gone, and neither the place nor you know him more. Very likely
also he will jump his bail and you will have to make good your
bond. One client in jail is worth two at large.

Lawyers exercise much invention in keeping their clients under
control. I recall one recent case where a French chauffeur who
had but just arrived in this country was arrested for speeding.
The most that could happen to him would, in the natural course of
events, be a fine of fifteen or twenty dollars. But an imaginative
criminal practitioner got hold of him in the police court and drew
such a highly colored picture of what might happen to him that the
Frenchman stayed in jail without bail under an assumed name, raised
some three hundred dollars by means of a draft on Paris, handed it
over to his counsel, and finally after a delay of two weeks was
tried in Special Sessions, found guilty, and let go on a suspended
sentence. He is now looking for the lawyer with a view to doing
something to him that will inevitably result in his own permanent
incarceration.

Another practical distinction between civil and criminal practitioners
is that while the first are concerned for the most part with the
law, the second are chiefly occupied with the facts. In civil
cases the lawyers spend most of their time in trying to demonstrate
that, even assuming their opponents' contentions as to the facts
to be true, the law is nevertheless in their own favor. Now, this
is a comparatively easy th