Chapter 25 No.25

For at the height of this particularly mischancy posture of affairs

the meddlesome Fates had elected to dispatch Cock-eye Flinks to serve

as our deus ex machina. And just as in the comedy the police turn

up in the nick of time to fetch Tartuffe to prison, or in the tragedy

Friar John manages to be detained on his journey to Mantua and t