Chapter 3
ONE THOUSAND POUNDS REWARDTo say that England was stirred to its depths—to quote more than
one leading article on the subject—by the extraordinary occurrence
in the House of Commons, would be stating the matter exactly.
The first intimation of the existence of the Four Just Men had
been received with pardonable derision, particularly by those
newspapers that were behindhand with the first news. Only the
Daily Megaphone had truly and earnestly recognised how
real was the danger which threatened the Minister in charge of the
obnoxious Act. Now, however, even the most scornful could not
ignore the significance of the communication that had so
mysteriously found its way into the very heart of Britain's most
jealously guarded institution. The story of the Bomb Outrage fill
