the few fads of Browett being the memorial window, it was also
said by enviers that if he would begin to erect a window to every small
competitor his Trust had squeezed to death there would be an
unprecedented flurry in stained glass. But Browett knew, as an
evolutionist, that the eagle has a divine right to the lamb if it can
come safely off with it; as a Christian, that one carries out the will
of God as indubitably in preserving the established order of prince and
subject, of noble and plebeian, as in giving of his abundance to relieve
the necessitous--or in endowing universities which should teach the
perpetual sacredness of the established order of things in Church and
State.

In short, he derived comfort from both poles of his belief--one the God
of Moses, a somewhat emotional god, not entirely uncarnal--the other the
god of Spencer, an unemotional and unimaginative god of Law.

It followed that he was much taken with a preacher who could answer so
appositely to the needs of his soul as did this impressive young man in
a chance sermon of unstudied eloquence.

There were social meetings in which Browett dispassionately confirmed
these early impressions gained under the spell of a matchless oratory,
and in due time there followed an invitation to the young rector of St.
Anne's of Edom to preach at the Church of St. Antipas, which was
Browett's city church.

CHAPTER V

A BELATED MARTYRDOM

The rectory at Edom was hot with the fever of preparation. The
invitation to preach at St. Antipas meant an offer of that parish should
the preaching be approved. It was a most desirable parish--Browett's
city church being as smart as one of his steam yachts or his private
train (for nothing less than a train sufficed him now--though there were
those of the green eyes who pretended to remember, with heavy sarcasm,
the humbler day when he had but a beggarly private car, coupled to the
rear of a common Limited). It was, moreover, a high church, its last
rector having been put away for the narrowness of refusing to "enrich
the service." This was the church and this the patron above all others
that the Reverend Allan Delcher Linford would have chosen, and earnestly
did he pray that God in His wisdom impart to him the grace to please
Browett and those whom Browett permitted to have a nominal voice in the
control of St. Antipas.

Both Aunt Bell and Nancy came to feel the strain of it all. The former
promised to "go into