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'You are Masquerier, then? I thought you were! 'Bat Masquerier. He let the words fall with the weight of an international ultimatum. 'Yes, that's all I am. But you have the advantage of me, gentlemen. For the moment, while we were introducing ourselves, I was puzzled.
'The Cake, said Woodhouse, and I remembered afterwards that he spoke like a Cabinet Minister on the eve of a Budget, 'reserves to itself the fullest right to deal with situations as they arise. 'Ye-eh! Bat Masquerier shook himself out of his thoughts. "Situations as they arise." I ain't idle either. But there's no use fishing till the swim's baited.
Pallant wants us to come to the House to-night. He's got us places for the Strangers' Gallery. I'm beginning to like Pallant. 'Masquerier seems to like you, I said. 'Yes, but I'm afraid of him, Ollyett answered with perfect sincerity. 'I am. He's the Absolutely Amoral Soul. I've never met one yet. We went to the House together.
Pallant muttered 'Hear! hear! I saw Ollyett's eye flash it was to Ollyett that Masquerier addressed himself chiefly, and Woodhouse leaned forward with joined hands. 'Are you with me? he went on, gathering us all up in one sweep of the arm. 'When I begin a thing I see it through, gentlemen. What Bat can't break, breaks him! But I haven't struck that thing yet.
'That business of the horn alone ought to have him off the Bench in three months. Masquerier looked at him even longer than he had looked at Woodhouse. 'He told me, he said suddenly, 'that my home-address was Jerusalem. You heard that? 'But it was the tone the tone, Ollyett cried. 'You noticed that, too, did you? said Masquerier. 'That's the artistic temperament. You can do a lot with it.
'For his poor, dear wife's sake I hope that, very much indeed. I suppose he didn't see me in Court. Oh, here's the parish history of Huckley written by the Rector and here's your share of the picture-postcards. Are we all dining with this Mr. Masquerier to-night? 'Yes! said we all. If Woodhouse knew nothing of journalism, young Ollyett, who had graduated in a hard school, knew a good deal.
However, the crowd was so considerable and so intent on viewing this scene, that the grenadiers, posted near the spot where it took place, were obliged to use some degree of violence before they could succeed in clearing a passage. Of all the portraits which you and I have seen of BONAPARTE in England, that painted by Masquerier, and exhibited in Piccadilly, presents the greatest resemblance.
'I knew you at once, said Pallant, the trained M.P., and I promptly backed the lie. Woodhouse mumbled excuses. Bat Masquerier was not moved for or against us any more than the frontage of one of his own palaces. 'I always tell My people there's a limit to the size of the lettering, he said. 'Overdo that and the ret'na doesn't take it in. Advertisin' is the most delicate of all the sciences.
'And we have also my little team London, Blackburn, Liverpool, Leeds I'll tell you about Manchester later and Me! Bat Masquerier. He breathed the name reverently into his tankard. 'Gentlemen, when our combination has finished with Sir Thomas Ingell, Bart., M.P., and everything else that is his, Sodom and Gomorrah will be a winsome bit of Merrie England beside 'em.
'It cost Bat Masquerier two thousand, Ollyett replied. 'D'you think he'd let any one else in on that? But I give you my sacred word I knew nothing about it till he asked me to come down and cover it. He had Huckley posted in three colours, "The Geoplanarians' Annual Banquet and Exercises." Yes, he invented "Geoplanarians." He wanted Huckley to think it meant aeroplanes. Yes, I know that there is a real Society that thinks the world's flat they ought to be grateful for the lift but Bat made his own. He did! He created the whole show, I tell you. He swept out half his Halls for the job. Think of that on a Saturday! They we went down in motor char-
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