The bourne--from which so many travellers never return--bounded by the criminal statutes, is a _terra incognita_ to the average citizen.

A bailiff with a warrant for his arrest would cause his instant collapse and a message that "all was discovered" would--exactly as in the popular saw--lead him to flee at once.
Upon this dread of the unknown the criminal attorney plays whenever possible.

It is his strongest asset, his stock in trade.

The civil lawyer, vaguely believing that there must be a criminal law to cover every obvious wrong, retains him to put the screws on the evil-doer and bring him to terms.

The man who has done a dirty business trick--in reality a hundred miles from being a crime-- engages the shyster to keep him out of jail.