You
have done me a great injury, and I shall not forget it."
On the following morning the leading American attorney of the city
called at the jail, announcing that he had been retained as
counsel, but refusing to tell who had employed him. Supposing, of
course, that he had been sent by friends who wished no publicity
in the matter, Kirk did not press him for information. Together
they outlined their defence as best they could. With
characteristic optimism, Kirk insisted upon treating the charge
against him as of little consequence, and it was not until he had
undergone his preliminary hearing that he fully realized the
gravity of his situation.
To his unspeakable indignation, the officer who had discovered
Cortlandt's body swore that he had seen the deceased pass him
shortly before the time of his death, evidently taking a walk
along the water's edge for relief from the heat, and that
immediately afterward--perhaps a minute or so--the prisoner had
also passed, going in the same direction! There was a street light
close by, he said, and there could be no possible mistake as to
Anthony's identity. A few moments later there had been a pistol-
shot, muffled, but unmistakable, and the policeman had hastened in
the direction from which it came.
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