21/65 'Tis a point of honour with us that no barrister will ever admit a doubt as to a client's innocence--is he not paid to maintain it ?--and to my dying day I will constantly maintain that old Prideaux poisoned himself. Maintain it with that dogged and meaningless obstinacy with which we always cling to whatever is least provable.... Oh, yes! He poisoned himself; and Yorke-Bannerman was innocent.... But still, you know, it WAS the sort of case where an acute lawyer, with a reputation to make, would prefer to be for the Crown rather than for the prisoner." "But it was never tried," I ejaculated. Fortune favoured us. |