"Then all of a sudden I began to feel like a king. I could see myself in a new suit, having a bottle up at the Haymarket. I realized that I was a twenty-thousand-dollar millionaire. And just to show my chest, I said:
"'Why, you're an honest man and a true friend. You take my claim and go and collect it this afternoon,' says I.
"'No,' he hesitated, 'it's too much responsibility. I'll trust you for the money and you can pay me afterward.'
"But with that, ass that I was, I fell to begging him to take the claim, and saying he must take it, just to show he believed I trusted him; and so after a while he reluctantly yielded and filled out a paper, and I signed it and got in the warden as a witness, and he rose to go.
"'Well, till this afternoon,' says he.
"'Au revoir,' I laughed, 'get yourself a bottle of wine for me,' says I. And off he goes.
"As I passed back to the cells, who should I see beside the door but my old lawyer.
"I shook my fist in his face.
"'You old robber,' I says, 'we'll see if I can't get along without you!'
"He sneered in my face.