Then ensued the season of temptation.

Why should he stand on a scruple?
Why not get free?
Here was a conscienceless attorney, ready to make any number of affidavits in regard to the absence of important witnesses; ready to fight the law by every technicality of the law.

His imprisonment had already taught him how dear liberty was, and, within half an hour after Conger left him, a great change came over him.
Why should he go to prison?
What justice was there in his going to prison?
Here he was, taking a long sentence to the penitentiary, while such men as Westcott and Conger were out.

There could be no equity in such an arrangement.

Whenever a man begins to seek equality of dispensation, he is in a fair way to debauch his conscience.