He'll come to it; but, so far, his researches
have been confined to the lower animals."
Jimmy looked puzzled. "Eh? . . . Oh, you mean politicians. Well, it
occurred to me that if he meant to attend any more political
meetings, there was no time to be lost. So--"
"But I don't," Jack growled.
Jimmy corrected himself. "Perhaps we'd better say, then, that I
thought it well he should know the difference between some public
gatherings and others. So we've been talking about the N.S.C. and
the Professor is under promise to visit it with me, one night, and
see how an argument ought to be conducted."
I lit a pipe and looked at Foe over the match. "Jack," said I, "a
holiday for you is indicated. With Jimmy's leave I'm going to speak
seriously for a moment. . . . Down in the country, among other jobs,
I have to sit on an Asylum Committee: and from the start I've been
struck by the number of officials in charge of lunatics who seem,
after some while at it, to go a bit dotty themselves. Doctors, male
attendants--it doesn't seem to affect the women so much--even
chaplains--after a time I wouldn't give more than short odds on the
complete sanity of any of 'em.
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