The Tichborne case gave Hawkins a chance to excel himself, and he proved to be on the winning side. I sketched most of the principal movers in this game of law, which was played round "the claimant," whom I recollect quite plainly as he sat at his table, which had a half circle cut into it for his unduly large stomach to fit in. Of his illiteracy (if poor spelling goes to prove it) I have a personal proof in a letter which ends, "_beleive_ me, "Yours truly, "A. C. TICHBORNE." I once sat in the court, watching him, with pencil in hand ready to jot down upon my shirt cuff anything I especially noticed, when he caught my eye, called the usher, and spoke a few words to him. It was duly intimated that my presence was "extremely disturbing to the claimant." The claimant's counsel, Dr. Edward Kenealy, Q.C. (and the one man on record who was supposed to have ruffled Hawkins's temper), was said to have believed in the claimant to the day of his death. Dr. Kenealy made his name in the Tichborne trial. He was, besides being a lawyer, a writer and poet (and an admirer of Disraeli) before the stupendous case arose to give him a field for his powers. I remember him as a little man with a wig that contrasted strangely with a sweep of beard and a firmly set mouth. When he rose to speak he placed one hand under his gown as though it might have been coat tails and used his right to point emphasis at his opponent. Some years afterwards, when I was walking near Brighton, I was very much interested to see his tomb in a churchyard there, or rather a very elaborate monument that had been placed there by the late Guilford Onslow. [Illustration: AUGUSTUS HELDER, M.P. (_A Proprietor of the "Graphic"._) 1896.] [Illustration: MADAME RACHEL. (_Made ladies beautiful forever. She loses her case and is imprisoned?_) 1865.] [Illustration: LORD RANELAGH. _Witness against Madame Rachel._] [Illustration: BEAL, M.P. _Radical_ 1869.] [Illustration: FIRST LORD COWLEY.] [Illustration: BARNUM. 1888. _Sketched at Victoria Hotel._] [Illustration: SIR H. COZENS HARDY _on board a cross-channel steamer._ 1900.] [Illustration: THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF CHRISTCHURCH, FRANCIS PAGET. 1894.] [Illustration: SIR RODERICK MURCHESON _coming from a levee._ 1868.] Mr. Justice Mellor and Mr. Justice Lush, both Judges in the Tichborne case, came under my pencil at the same period.