store for you if you go ahead with this scheme of yours, what do you decide? Is it to be war, or is it to be peace? Are you in one breath to be acclaimed author of 'Trixie' by an astounded (and largely offended) universe, and in the next to be hissed off the scene for a common and rather foolish kind of dirty swindler; or are you to keep your mouth shut and continue to enjoy the esteem and confidence of the British public, with the strong probability of finding yourself made a bishop within the next couple of years? Speak, old sir, and that might quickly."
The Archdeacon passed his hand across his eyes. "I can't guess, Chloë," he said in a dull voice, "how you found out about that miserable affair of the third-class ticket, but I am not going to deny your accusation. Nor need I say very much in
