"Russell. 'What charges?'
"Pigott. 'I do not know. That is what I cannot tell you.'
"Russell. 'Well, let me remind you that that particular part of the charges—the incriminatory letters—were letters that you yourself knew all about.'
"Pigott. 'Yes, of course.'
"Russell (reading from another letter of Pigott's to the archbishop). '"I was somewhat disappointed in not having a line from your Grace, as I ventured to expect I might have been so far honored. I can assure your Grace that I have no other motive in writing save to avert, if possible, a great danger to people with whom your Grace is known to be in strong sympathy. At the same time, should your Grace not desire to interfere in the matter, or should you consider that they would refuse me a hearing, I am well content, having acquitted myself of what I conceived to be my duty in the circumstances. I will not further trouble your Grace save to again beg that you will not allow my name to transpire, seeing that to do so would interfere injuriously with my prospects, without any compensating advantage to any one. I make the request all the more confidently because I have had no part in what is being done to the prejudice of the Parnellite party, though I was enabled to become acquainted with all the details."'
"Pigott (with a look of confusion and alarm). 'Yes.'
"Russell. 'What do you say to that?'
"Pigott. 'That it appears to me clearly that I had not the letters in my mind.'
"Russell. 'Then if it appears to you clearly that you had not the letters in your mind, what had you in your mind?'
"Pigott. 'It must have been something far more serious.'