We shall never know how it would have
ended, for this was the very last time that Ernest ever saw Pryer.
Perhaps Pryer was going to break him some bad news about his
speculations.
CHAPTER LX
ERNEST now went home and occupied himself till luncheon with
studying Dean Alford's notes upon the various Evangelistic records
of the Resurrection, doing as Mr. Shaw had told him, and trying to
find out, not that they were all accurate, but whether they were all
accurate or no. He did not care which result he should arrive at,
but he was resolved that he would reach one or the other. When he
had finished Dean Alford's notes he found them come to this, namely,
that no one yet had succeeded in bringing the four accounts into
tolerable harmony with each other, and that the Dean, seeing no chance
of succeeding better than his predecessors had done, recommended
that the whole story should be taken on trust- and this Ernest was not
prepared to do.
He got his luncheon, went out for a long walk, and returned to
dinner at half past six. While Mrs. Jupp was getting him his dinner -a
steak and a pint of stout -she told him that Miss Snow would be very
happy to see him in about an hour's time.
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