66 Water Street, and there had the good luck to find Sam alone. He led me immediately to the house of his brother Robert, and here I am in possession of Sam's room in Stone Street, in the City of New York, on the 8th day of June, anno dom. 1812." Some of his darkest hours were still before him. CHAPTER I THE MIGHTY WATERS I COLONEL BURR remained hidden in the Stone Street house for some three weeks, while the Swartwouts busied themselves arranging for his immunity from arrest. Government officials were sounded, the creditors were persuaded to leniency, a paragraph was inserted in the papers stating that the Colonel had been in Boston and was on his way to New York. The news did not unduly disturb the city. A further notice then appeared one morning to the effect that Colonel Burr had returned, and that he had opened an office for the practice of the law at 9 Nassau Street. More than five hundred persons called to see him before nightfall, and Robert Troup, his old personal friend and sometime political enemy, placed his own law library at the Colonel's disposal. Colonel Burr possessed ten dollars in cash. He was fifty-six years old. He tacked up a little tin sign outside his door, and prepared to resume his long interrupted practice, thinking that little by little enough clients would come to him to bring him a living. They came immediately, and by the |