Worse--the little guardians of so-called law and morality, the newspapers, the preachers, the police, and the public moralists generally, so loud in their denunciation of evil in humble places, were cowards all when it came to corruption in high ones.

They did not dare to utter a feeble squeak until some giant had accidentally fallen and they could do so without danger to themselves.

Then, O Heavens, the palaver! What beatings of tom-toms! What mouthings of pharisaical moralities--platitudes! Run now, good people, for you may see clearly how evil is dealt with in high places! It made him smile.

Such hypocrisy! Such cant! Still, so the world was organized, and it was not for him to set it right.

Let it wag as it would.