The Pope addressed Semphill. "Your Reverency quite legitimately hoped to end your days at St. Gowff's?" "True--(hum!)--Holiness: but I may be translated elsewhere by a telegraph's notice from my diocesan." "You are not yet a missionary-rector?" "Merely a poor master-of-arts of Oxford." "But you have been at St. Gowff's as long as We can remember." Mr. Semphill choked a chuckle. "Having a little patrimony, Holiness, I made my will in favour of the archdiocese of St. Gowff's and Agneda; and I did not omit to mention the fact to my archbishop. I happened also to say that, in the event of my being moved from St. Gowff's, I should be compelled to make another will: but of course I did not contemplate being moved as far as Rome." Hadrian turned to Mr. Sterling. "The last words, which We said to Your Reverency, were that you had cause to be ashamed of yourself." "One had cause, Holy Father." "To you, Our invitation is a means of repairing a single small defect in a praiseworthy career." "It shall be repaired, Holy Father." To the others the Pope said nothing: for He saw their clean souls. In the Sacred Consistory, the Supreme Pontiff dictated to consistorial advocates a pontifical act, denouncing the Lord Francis Talacryn, Bishop of Caerleon, as Cardinal-presbyter of the Title of the Four Holy Crowned Ones:--the Lord George Semphill as Cardinal-deacon of St. Mary-in-Broad Street:--the Lord James Sterling as Cardinal-deacon of St. Nicholas-in-the-Jail-of-Tully:--the Lord George Leighton as Cardinal-deacon of The Holy Angel-in-the-Fish-Market:--the Lord Gerald Whitehead as Cardinal-deacon of St. George-of-the-Golden-Sail:--the Lord Robert Carvale as Cardinal-deacon of St. Cosmas and St. Damian. Then the six were brought in, and sworn of the College: their heads were hatted, their fingers ringed with sapphires, their mouths were closed and opened by the Pope; and they retired in ermine and vermilion. What their emotions were, need not be inquired. Indeed, they had little time for emotion, seeing that during the rest of the day they sat in the secret chamber, writing writing writing from Hadrian's dictation. In the evening, Whitehead and Carvale put on their old cassocks and posted a carriage-full of letters at San Silvestro. These all were sealed with the Fisherman's Ring; and, as they were addressed to kings, emperors, prime-ministers, editors of newspapers, and heads of various religious denominations, it was considered undesirable to trouble Prince Minimo, the pontifical post-master, with material for gossip. Meanwhile Hadrian and Cardinal Semphill sat in the Vatican marconigraph office alone with the operators; and the Pope dictated, while the experts' fingers expressed His words in dots and dashes in London and New York. By consequence, what His Holiness called 'the five decent newspapers' came out on the first of May with an apostolic epistle, a pontifical bull, and editorial leaders thereupon.