I desire to make it." Lord Robert looked positively distressed.
"My dear sir," he said, "the right of appeal, any right of any sort, belongs only to those within the circle." "Exactly," Mr.Sabin agreed.

"I claim to belong there." Lord Roberts shrugged his shoulders.
"You force me to remind you," he said, "of a certain decree--a decree of expulsion passed five years ago, and of which I presume due notification was given to you." Mr.Sabin shook his head very slowly.
"I deny the legality of that decree," he said.

"There can be no such thing as expulsion." "There was Lefanu," Lord Robert murmured.
"He died," Mr.Sabin answered.

"That was reasonable enough." "Your services had been great," Lord Robert said, "and your fault was but venial." "Nevertheless," Mr.Sabin said, "the one was logical, the other is not." "You claim, then," the young man said, "to be still within the circle ?" "Certainly!" "You are aware that this is a very dangerous claim ?" Mr.Sabin smiled, but he said nothing.

Lord Robert hastened to excuse himself.
"I beg your pardon," he said.