Come, don't let us waste any more words, what interest have you in favouring the Coup d'Etat ?" And, as he continued to assert his perfect honesty, she at last lost patience.

"You take me for a fool!" she cried.

"I've read your article.
You would do much better to act in concert with us." Thereupon, without avowing anything, he flatly submitted that he wished to have the custom of the college.

Formerly it was he who had supplied that establishment with school books.

But it had become known that he sold objectionable literature clandestinely to the pupils; for which reason, indeed, he had almost been prosecuted at the Correctional Police Court.