because I
have delight in ruling men! If I am not mistaken, you have it in you to
become a leader in your way, and some day you'll remember my words."

Northway opened his eyes very wide, and with a look of gratification.

"You think I'm cut out for that kind of thing?"

"Judging from what I have heard of your talk. But not in England, you
understand. Try one of the new countries, where the popular cause goes
ahead more boldly. You're young enough yet."

The listener mused, smiling in a self-conscious way that obliged
Glazzard to avert his face for a moment lest he should betray
contemptuous amusement.

"Shall you be there--in that town--to-morrow?" asked the young man.

"No, I have business in quite another part. That election," he added,
with an air of importance, "is not the only one I am looking after."

There was silence, then Glazzard continued:

"It's indifferent to me whether it comes out that I planned this
stratagem, or not. Still, in the interests of my party, I admit that I
had rather it were kept quiet. So I'll tell you what. If, in a month's
time, I find that you have kept the secret, you shall receive at any
address you like a second five-pound note. It's just as you please. Of
course, if you think you can get more by bargaining with the
Liberals--but I doubt whether the secret will be worth anything after
the explosion."

"All right. I'll give you an address, so that if you keep in the same
mind"----

He mentioned it. And Glazzard made a note.

"Then we strike a bargain, Mr. Northway?"

"Yes, I'll go through with it," was the deliberate reply.

"Very well. Then you shall have the particulars."

Thereupon Glazzard made known the names he had kept in reserve.
Northway jotted them down on the back of an envelope, his hand rather
unsteady.

"There's a train to Polterham," said Glazzard, "at nine o'clock in the
morning. You'll be there by ten--see Ridge the bookseller, and be at
the Court-house in convenient time. I know there's a sitting to-morrow;
and on the second day after comes out the Polterham Tory paper. You
will prepare them such an item of news in their police reports as they
little look for. By that time the whole truth will be known, of course,
and Mr. Quarrier's candidature will be impossible."

"What will the Liberals do?"

"I can't imagine. We shall look on and enjoy the
situation--unprecedented, I should think."

Northway again smiled; he seemed to enter into the jest.