THREE YEARS LATER When I broke the back of knight-errantry that time, I no longer felt obliged to work in secret.

So, the very next day I exposed my hidden schools, my mines, and my vast system of clandestine factories and workshops to an astonished world.

That is to say, I exposed the nineteenth century to the inspection of the sixth.
Well, it is always a good plan to follow up an advantage promptly.
The knights were temporarily down, but if I would keep them so I must just simply paralyze them--nothing short of that would answer.

You see, I was "bluffing" that last time in the field; it would be natural for them to work around to that conclusion, if I gave them a chance.

So I must not give them time; and I didn't.
I renewed my challenge, engraved it on brass, posted it up where any priest could read it to them, and also kept it standing in the advertising columns of the paper.
I not only renewed it, but added to its proportions.