es, but I've seen a few in my time, and all I can say is that
unless Doyle's nephew is a great deal better at the job than most of the
fellows that makes them, nobody would know, unless they were told, who
their statue's meant to be like."

"My nephew's a good sculptor," said Doyle. "If he wasn't I wouldn't
have brought his name forward to-day; but what the doctor says is true
enough. I've seen heads he's done, for mural tablets and the like, and
so far as anybody recognising them for portraits of the deceased goes,
you might have changed the tablets and, barring the inscriptions, nobody
would have known to the differ. Not but what they were well done, every
one of them."

"There now, Major," said Dr. O'Grady. "That pretty well disposes of your
last objection."

"That's only a side issue," said the Major, speaking with a calm which
was evidently forced. "My point is that we can't, in ordinary decency,
put up a statue of one man to represent another."

"I don't know that I altogether agree with the Major there," said Father
McCormack, "but there's something in what he says."

"I can't see that there's anything," said Dr. O'Grady.
"Deputy-Lieutenants have uniforms, haven't they? So have Generals.
Nobody can possibly know what the uniform of a Bolivian General was
fifty or a hundred years ago. All we could do, even if we were having
the statue entirely made to order, would be to guess at the uniform.
It's just as likely to be that of a modern Deputy-Lieutenant as anything
else."

"That's true of course," said Father McCormack.

"Anyway," said Doyle, "if we're to have a statue at all it'll have to be
this one. There's no other for us to get, so what's the use of talking?"

The Major shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

"There's evidently no use my talking," he said.

"Is it your wish then, gentlemen," said Father McCormack, "that the
offer of Mr. Aloysius Doyle to supply a statue of General John Regan be
accepted by the committee?"

"It is," said Dr. O'Grady.

"Subject to the price being satisfactory," said Gallagher. "We haven't
heard the price yet."

"I have the letter about the price which my nephew sent me," said Doyle,
"and I think you'll all agree with me that he's giving it cheap."

"He ought to," said Gallagher, "considering that if he doesn't sell it
to us it's not likely he'll sell it at all."

"The demand for second-hand statues must be small," said the Major.

"What he says is," said Doyle, "t