If that be necessary, we'll lose it; but we'll have it, spite of his teeth, if we can.

Arabin will be at Plumstead to-morrow; you must come over and talk to him." The two now turned into the cathedral library, which was used by the clergymen of the close as a sort of ecclesiastical club-room, for writing sermons and sometimes letters; also for reading theological works and sometimes magazines and newspapers.

The theological works were not disturbed, perhaps, quite as often as from the appearance of the building the outside public might have been led to expect.

Here the two allies settled on their course of action.

The archdeacon wrote a letter to the bishop, strongly worded, but still respectful, in which he put forward his father-in-law's claim to the appointment and expressed his own regret that he had not been able to see his lordship when he called.