7: Isabella
IT WAS A VERY PUZZLED-LOOKING CLERGYMAN who, after hearing Gees’ statement of his case to its end, put question after question, and found pat replies rained on him with unvarying rapidity.
“I must grant, Mr. Green, that cases such as you allege this to be are not altogether unknown in our history, but I have no proof that this is such a case, only your word for it. And you may be mistaken.”
“And what do you lose, beyond a bare ten minutes of your time, if I am?” Gees retorted. “Could anything be simpler than what I ask?”
“It may seem simple to you, a layman,” the rector said, “but even if you convince the father, and then I act as you say— and it fails to produce any result? In other words, if you are wrong?”
“Then,” Gees answered thoughtfully, “I suppose I can only apolog
