CHAPTER VI.
FOUND IN THE BIBLE.
_November_ 3_d_.

The most wonderful event has befallen--surely the most wonderful that ever came to pass outside the realms of fiction.

Let me set down the circumstances of yesterday coolly and quietly if I can.

I invoke the placid spirit of my Sheldon.

I invoke all the divinities of Gray's Inn and "The Fields." Let me be legal and specific, perspicacious and logical--if this beating heart, this fevered brain, will allow me a few hours' respite.
The autumn sunshine blessed the land again yesterday.