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And Mr. Heard
was both shocked and amused to reflect that but for the co-operation of
certain coarse organic impulses to which these Nepenthe legends
testified, the millionaire might never have been able to acquire the
proud title of "Saviour of his Country."
"That's queer," he mused. "It never struck me before. Shows how careful
one must be. Dear me! Perhaps the ladies have inevitable organic
impulses of a corresponding kind. Decidedly queer. H'm. Ha. Now I
wonder. . . . And perhaps, if the truth were known, these young persons
are having quite a good time of it--"
He paused abruptly in his reflections. He had caught himself in the
act; in the very act of condoning vice. Mr. Thomas Heard was seriously
concerned.
Something was wrong, he concluded. He would never have argued on
similar lines a short time ago. This downright sympathy with sinners,
what did it portend? Did it betray a lapse from his old-established
principles, a waning of his respect for traditional morality? Was he
becoming a sinner himself?
Thomas--the doubting apostle.


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