Tiernan, Edstrom, Kerrigan, and Gilgan met and mapped out a programme of division far too intricate to be indicated here.

Needless to say, it involved the division of chief clerks, pro rata, of police graft, of gambling and bawdy-house perquisites, of returns from gas, street-railway, and other organizations.

It was sealed with many solemn promises.

If it could be made effective this quadrumvirate was to endure for years.

Judges, small magistrates, officers large and small, the shrievalty, the water office, the tax office, all were to come within its purview.