In the event the prisoner was acquitted without a stain upon his character or upon his advocate's.
Watson is now well established as the last hope of abandoned causes. He is a specialist in defence, and criminals of every shade throng to him. When a new one swims into his ken Watson meets him on the threshold and says, "Don't speak a word. Read this;" and he puts into his hand a printed slip. The slip reads:—
" Conditions of Advocacy.
"(1) If you put your case into my hands it ceases at once and from that moment to be any concern of your own. You are not entitled, for instance, to express any opinion as to whether you committed the alleged crime or not. That is my affair exclusively.
"(2) If however there is anything which lies so heavily on your conscience that it must out sooner or later, let it be later. I am open to receive confessions at any time after proceedings have begun.
"If you accept these conditions, good; if not, go."
Watson says they always accept them, so he never worries about the General Council of the Bar.
THE NEW ISSUE.
OIL GENIE (gushingly, to Coal-Owner and Mr. SMILLIE). "CAN I DO ANYTHING TO ALLAY THE TROUBLED WATERS?"
[The discovery of oil in Derbyshire, which threatens the supremacy of the mining industry, may affect the questions now in dispute before the Coal Commission.]