Calling Upon Friends

[rabidsamfan]

The preparatory visit from the barrister left me filled with apprehension. Wiggins's testimony would put his freedom at risk, even if he could be found, and Mrs. Hudson, while respectable, was female and would therefore be accused of hysteria. Character witnesses were what I required. I drew up a short list of names, that witnesses might be summoned; men whom I thought might remember me kindly. I hoped that some of them might be in the city, willing and able to testify on my behalf.

But I dared not include the name of the one man who knew me best.