"If so soon as this I'm done for,
I wonder what I was begun for!"
quoted Sir John Oakapple. "If they never agreed at all, what did they take office together for?"
"The screw," suggested Captain Heseltine.
"Then why haven't they stuck to it?"
Silence met this question, and the Chief Justice turned a look of bland inquiry on Mr. Kilshaw.
Mr. Kilshaw coughed and turned the pages of the Kirton World.
The Chief Justice winked at Dick Derosne, and
said that it was refreshing to see there were still men who would sacrifice office to conviction.
"Oh, uncommon, Sir John," said Dick Derosne, and these cynics, having done entire injustice to two deeply sincere men, went off and joined in a game of pool. The Chief Justice took the pool.