“Most assuredly!” declared the other.
“Dr. Vince!” exclaimed the other. “Do you mean that you would actually try to turn me out of the church?”
“I would, sir!”
“But, doctor, have you the right to do that?”
“The right? Why not?”
“You have the right to take away my work. But to turn me out of the church?”
“Samuel,” cried the distracted clergyman, “am I not the rector of this church?”
“But, doctor,” cried Samuel, “it is the church of God!”
There was a long pause.
Finally, Samuel took up the conversation again. “Tell me, Dr. Vince,” he said. “When Mr. Hickman came to see you, did he deny that he had committed that crime?”