"Well, sir?" he once more challenged.
"He was told he was wanted as a minister," said Hugh.
"Well, sir?"
"He was wanted merely to get your letter off secretly."
"You lie!"
"Oh!" sighed the Yazoo pair. Ramsey shrank upon Mrs. Gilmore.
"Not at all," said a quiet voice overhead and the eyes of Julian, blazing upward, met Watson's blazing down.
"Come," said the player's wife to Ramsey, "come away."
"I won't," tearfully laughed Ramsey, and Mrs. Gilmore and the squire's sister had to laugh with her.
"The lie," said Hugh, "will keep. Your letter is such that the bishop declines to touch it."