The papers had entered into the discussion with an alacrity quickened
by the fact that at this especial season there was not much else in the
way of news. Rangely wrote for the "Daily Eagle" a glowing editorial in
which he urged the choice of Strathmore on the ground that the new
bishop should be not the representative of a faction, but of the whole
church, and as far as possible of the people. It insisted that only a
man liberal himself could have breadth to understand and sympathize
with all shades of feeling. Others of the secular press had taken up
the discussion, and Mrs. Wilson declared that the devil was
contributing editorials to the papers in his keen fear that Father
Frontford would be elected.
Lent wore at last to an end, and the festivities which follow Easter
came in with all their usual gayety. One evening, about a week before
the election, a musicale was given at the house of Mrs. Gore. Mr. and
Mrs. Strathmore were present, the tall figure of the former being
conspicuous in the crowd which after the music surged toward the
supper-room and later eddied through the parlors. Fred Rangely came
upon the clergyman at a moment when he had detached himself from the
admiring women who usually surrounded him, and taken refuge in the
shadow of a deep window.
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