So it was that Fate offered the opportunity, as he came up the front street of Askatoon, and found himself face to face with Mazarine, over against the offices of Burlingame.
"A word with you, Mr.Mazarine," he said, with the air of a man who wants to ease his mind of its trouble by action.

"Back there at the station, I kept my tongue and let you down easy enough, because my mother was present.

She is old and sensitive, and she doesn't like to see her son doing the dirty work every man must do some time or other, when there's street cleaning to be done.

Now, let me tell you this: you've slandered as good a girl, you've libelled as straight a wife, as the best man in the world ever had.

You've made a public scandal of your private home.