treachery and I will show you a traitor; and father must be as treacherous as Judas Iscariot to have imagined that you could mean to do him down, Bish. Why, as you and I know perfectly well, nothing was farther from your thoughts than to deny his authorship. It was only because I don't want my mother to be worried and humiliated and disappointed that we burnt that manuscript of the Archdeak's and put it out of his power, as we thought, to dish his chances of wearing lawn sleeves. And all the time the old iniquity had got another script laid down in cold storage to back up his claim to be the author of 'Trixie.' Well, what I say is, it's not decent for a clergyman to be so sharp."
"That's all perfectly correct," said Dunkle, "but it doesn't get us any forwarder, old tick. What, for example, do you suggest we should do? It's quite
