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Updated: June 7, 2025
The rain and thunder would in all human probability have drowned both. 'Besides which his lordship is neither sharp-eared nor observant, said Mrs Pansey, spitefully; 'a man less fitted to be a bishop doesn't live. 'Oh, dear Mrs Pansey! you are too hard on him. 'Rubbish! don't tell me! What about his sons, Mr Cargrim? Did they hear anything? 'I don't quite follow you, Mrs Pansey.
I heard that news this morning. 'Indeed! But the bishop only sent for Captain Pendle yesterday. 'Quite so; and Miss Arden received a telegram from Captain Pendle this morning. 'Ah! Miss Whichello, young love! young love! The little lady could have shaken Cargrim for the smirk with which he made this remark.
Bonis nocet quis quis pepercerit malis; that is a true saying which, as a priest, I should obey, and which I intend to obey if only for your own benefit. After punishment comes repentance and amendment. Cargrim scowled. 'It is no use talking further, my lord, he said roughly. 'As I have acted like a fool, I must take a fool's wages.
'Thank you; I am as well as can be expected. 'Really! considering what, Dr Graham? 'Considering the way I am kept waiting here, Mr Cargrim, after which pointed speech there was nothing left for the defeated chaplain but to retreat as gracefully as he could. Yet Cargrim might have known, from past experience, that a duel of words with sharp-tongued Dr Graham could only end in his discomfiture.
Still, this might serve as a peg whereon to hang his inquiries and develop further information, so the chaplain, after meditating over his five-o'clock cup of tea, took his way to the Eastgate, in order to put Gabriel unawares into the witness-box. Yet, for all these doings and suspicions Cargrim had no very good reason, save his own desire to get Dr Pendle under his thumb.
Cargrim did not believe that the bishop had paid the blackmail, therefore the pockets could not have been searched for the money; the more so, as no possible robber could have known that Jentham would be possessed of a sum worth committing murder for on that night.
It was imperative that he should reprove and dismiss Cargrim for his duplicity, and most necessary for the rearrangement of their lives that Mrs Pendle should be informed of the untimely resurrection of her husband.
Apparently he was as yet ignorant that Mother Jael was in his immediate vicinity; but Cargrim determined that he should be warned of her presence as speedily as possible, and be lured into having an interview with her so that his scheming chaplain might see what would come of the meeting.
If, angered at Gabriel, the bishop gave him the living, he would let the bishop settle his account with his conscience, but if Dr Pendle refused, he would then go up to London and hire a bloodhound to follow the trail of Dr Pendle's crime even to his very doorstep. In thus giving his patron an alternative, Cargrim thought himself a very virtuous person indeed.
'I don't mind that, doctor, so long as there is no real cause for alarm. 'I give you my word of honour, Miss Lucy, that this is a case of much ado about nothing. 'Let us hope that such is the case, said Cargrim, the Jesuit, in his softest tones, whereupon Graham looked at him with a pronounced expression of dislike.
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