CHAPTER XVI.
When he returned to Ballymoy after his interview with Mr.Dowling, Hyacinth set himself to fulfil his threat of writing to the _Croppy_.
He spent Saturday afternoon and evening in his lodgings with the paper containing the blatant speech spread out before him.

He blew his anger to a white heat by going over the evidence of the man's grotesque hypocrisy.

He wrote and rewrote his article.

It was his first attempt at expressing thought on paper since the days when he sought to satisfy examiners with disquisitions on Dryden's dramatic talent and other topics suited to the undergraduate mind.

This was a different business.
It was no longer a question of filling a sheet of foolscap with grammatical sentences, discovering synonyms for words hard to spell.