CHAPTER XXII. 



NO NEWS FROM JELFER — FREEMASONRY IN RELATION TO 

 HORSE-DEALING— CASUISTRY AND MASONRY— NOTE 

 FOR A POEM — AN ARRIVAL. 



HILE I am waiting to hear some news of 

 another horse, Cazell calls on me. 



I tell him of how Jelfer took me in with the 

 " slug," and how really I should never be sur- 

 prised to hear of " Gazelle " coming down, if Mrs. Jelfer will 

 drive him in a basket chaise. 



'• O," says Cazell regretfully, '' if you and Jelfer were 

 Freemasons you wouldn't try to do one another." 



I am indignant. I have not tried to '' do " Jelfer j and I 

 do not suppose, I say, that Jelfer really intended to take me 

 in about the slug. 



Again if I can't trust a man as a man, why should I, as a 

 Freemason ? 



" Ah," returns Cazell mysteriously, " you don't understand. 

 A brother is bound by a solemn oath not to deceive a 

 brother of the craft, \i)ider certain serious pains and 

 penalties." 



*' But," I say sceptically, " that sort of thing is not enforced 

 now-a-days." 



