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The bishop was pensive. There was something wrong with this
story--something fundamentally wrong. He turned to Keith:
"That man must be a liar too. If, as he says, the thing was never found
out, how can he have learnt all about it?"
"Hush, my dear fellow. He thinks I don't know, but I do. It was his own
father to whom the adventure occurred."
"The adventure?" said Mr. Heard.
"The adventure. Surely you are not going to make a tragedy of it? If
you cannot see the joke of that story, you must be hard to please. I
nearly died of laughing when I first heard it."
"What would you have done?"
"If I had been the botanist? I would not have made myself disagreeable
to the natives. Also, I would not have got myself into a tangle with
that rope."
"You think he ought to have cut it?"
"What else could the poor fellow do? It strikes me, Heard, you attach
some inordinate importance to human life."
"It's all rather complex," sighed the bishop.
"Now that is really interesting!"
"Interesting?"
"Why should you find it complex, when I find it simple? Let me see.


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