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found him still distracted between conflicting views of interest. Totally as he had succumbed to our heroine’s witchery at the time, he did not in his heart believe in the new worship of the Madonna, any more than he did in the old worship of Christ and the Trinity. The question for him was simply, which would pay? Would he become the more marked man by helping to bolster up the moribund creed, or by boldly hacking it down with his own hand? His servant, knocking at the door with hot water, brought in a telegram which decided him.
‘Please to put up all I require for a month, the same as last time,’ said Cardinal Power. ‘I leave by this evening’s mail from Charing Cross.’
