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"Never until after I was reat Apostle----"

"Then I'm sorry for your wife, for she , we have our own opinions of each other and there's an end Noe have both the same object, you because you are a pious crank and no more human than a dried eel, and I because I aht to be, wearing a coronet in the House of Lords The question is: How is the job to be done? You don't understand Isobel, but I do If her back is put up, wild horses won't o to a place that you are better acquainted with than I am, or will be, and take my money with me Of course, I could hold her for a few e perhaps, but after that, No So it seems that the only chance is your son Nohat's his weak point? Can he be bought off?"

"Certainly not," said Mr Knight

"Oh! that's odd in one who, you say, is a fortune-hunter Well, what is it? Everyone has a weak point, and another girl won't do just now"

"His weakest point is his fondness for that treacherous and abominable sex of which I have just had so painful an example; and in the church too, yes, in et to in such a rain, for of course they didn't know that you were hiding under the pews But I've told you that cock won't fight at present What's the next?"

At these accuht turned perfectly livid with suppressed rage But he did suppress it, for he had an object to gain which, to his perverted mind, was the most important in the whole world--namely, the final separation of his son and Isobel

"His next bad point," he went on, "is his pride, which is abnorh from childhood I have done my best to inculcate humility of spirit into his heart He cannot bear any affront, or even neglect For instance, he left me for some years just because he did not consider that he was received properly on his return froe, for he has a very evil teested that he wanted to run after your daughter's money"

"Well, it wasn't a very nice thing to say, was it? But I think I see light He's proud, is he, and don't like allusions to fortune-hunting All right; I'll rub his nose in the dirt and ood I'ree, my reverend friend; and if he shows his airs to me, I'll kick him off the premises Come on! I dare say we shall find the, although the rain has stopped"