t was to the effect that he had now
arrested my father, and that if the vergers attempted in any way to
interfere between him and his prisoner, his brothers were to arrest both
of them, which, as special constables, they had power to do.

Yram had noted Hanky's attempt to goad my father, and had not been
prepared for his stealing a march upon her by trying to get my father
arrested by Musical Bank officials, rather than by her son. On the
preceding evening this last plan had been arranged on; and she knew
nothing of the note that Hanky had sent an hour or two later to the
Manager of the temple--the substance of which the reader can sufficiently
guess. When she had heard Hanky's words and saw the vergers, she was for
a few minutes seriously alarmed, but she was reassured when she saw
George give my father the warrant, and her two sons evidently explaining
the position to the vergers.

Hanky had by this time changed his theme, and was warning his hearers of
the dangers that would follow on the legalization of the medical
profession, and the repeal of the edicts against machines. Space forbids
me to give his picture of the horrible tortures that future generations
would be put to by medical men, if these were not duly kept in check by
the influence of the Musical Banks; the horrors of the inquisition in the
middle ages are nothing to what he depicted as certain to ensue if
medical men were ever to have much money at their command. The only
people in whose hands money might be trusted safely were those who
presided over the Musical Banks. This tirade was followed by one not
less alarming about the growth of materialistic tendencies among the
artisans employed in the production of mechanical inventions. My father,
though his eyes had been somewhat opened by the second of the two
processions he had seen on his way to Sunch'ston, was not prepared to
find that in spite of the superficially almost universal acceptance of
the new faith, there was a powerful, and it would seem growing,
undercurrent of scepticism, with a desire to reduce his escape with my
mother to a purely natural occurence.

"It is not enough," said Hanky, "that the Sunchild should have ensured
the preparation of authoritative evidence of his supernatural character.
The evidences happily exist in overwhelming strength, but they must be
brought home to minds that as yet have stubbornly refused to receive
them. During the last five years there has been an