He therefore took the train for New York and arrived there in due time.
To William Bucholz the absence of his friend and confidant was a severe blow, but as he realized the service he promised to perform for him, and the prospect of safety that was opening before his despairing mind, he became reconciled to his lonely fate, and waited patiently for the return of the man who was expected to devote himself to his interests.
The suspicious actions of Brown, the prisoner who had watched their movements so zealously, had not escaped the notice of both Sommers and Bucholz, and, on leaving, the former had cautioned his companion particularly and repeatedly against saying anything to him or to any one else about matters connected with his case.
At the end of three days Edward Sommers returned to Bridgeport, and, selecting a private boarding-house, he took up his abode there and prepared to carry out the plans that were to be arranged between himself and William Bucholz.
He considered it of paramount importance at the outset to disabuse the minds of the attorneys for Bucholz of any suspicion in regard to the relations existing between them, and with that end in view he paid a visit to the city of New Haven, and finding Mr.Bollman, the counsel who had acted for both of them, at his office, he engaged him for the conduct of his own case when it should come to trial.
In the course of the conversation which ensued, Mr.Bollman turned suddenly to Sommers, and said: "Do you know, Mr.Sommers, that I have earnestly and repeatedly warned my client against you?
I had reason to believe that the prosecuting attorney had placed some one in the jail to cultivate the friendship of William Bucholz, in the attempt to obtain a confession from him, and I thought you were the man.

William would not listen to this, however, and I myself believe now that such is not the case as regards yourself, but I told him that he must not trust any one with whom he was associated, nor make a confidant of any one in the prison.

A man in his position, you know cannot be too careful." Sommers listened attentively and good-humoredly to these remarks, and finally informed Mr.Bollman that he knew Bucholz had been warned against him, for he had told him so.
"But, Mr.Bollman," continued he, "you need not be afraid of me, for I have given him the same advice myself." "Do you know of any suspicious persons in the jail ?" asked Mr.
Bollman.
"I cannot tell with any certainty," replied the other; "but I do not like the looks of one of the hall men, nor of that treacherous-looking Brown, who is always spying upon the actions of the inmates of the prison.

I have warned Bucholz against these men myself, and I do not think he has given them any information whatever." After a protracted conversation, during which Sommers labored diligently and successfully to erase any latent suspicions from the mind of the attorney, Mr.Bollman at length said: "Well, Mr.Sommers, to be candid with you, my suspicions were the most decidedly aroused when I had my interview with Mr.Olmstead, the State's attorney, about your bail.

He evinced an unwillingness to reduce the amount, and expressed a belief that you had known Bucholz before you came to the jail.