"He's a mystery," said another priest, Father Blackmore; "but he seems to be causing great excitement. They were selling his 'Life' to-day on the Embankment."
"I met an American senator," put in Percy, "three days ago, who told me that even there they know nothing of him, except his extraordinary eloquence. He only appeared last year, and seems to have carried everything before him by quite unusual methods. He is a great linguist, too. That is why they took him to Irkutsk."
"Well, the Masons—" went on Monsignor. "It is very serious. In the last month four of my penitents have left me because of it."
"Their inclusion of women was their master-stroke," growled Father Blackmore, helping himself to claret.
"It is extraordinary that they hesitated so long about that," observed Percy.
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