evident that nothing either Bish or I can say will have any effect on him. It remains for us to do. But what? To act. But how?
"We might have him certified insane and put away, but there's hardly time for that. Besides, I don't know any venal doctors. I fancy, moreover, that it's not as easy nowadays as it used to be during the reign of Queen Victoria. I've a sort of idea that private lunatic asylums aren't allowed any longer. To burgle the safe deposit for that manuscript, again, is quite a hopeless plan. Yet if we could get hold of the manuscript and burn it, the Archdeak wouldn't have a leg to stand on. He could never hope to make out his case without that bundle of paper. There's not a soul alive who'd accept his story. On the face of it, it's simply crazy. We could have him behind bars in half an hour. But so long
