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All the same , I 'll have a fool for my next chaplain . Fools are easier to deal with . ' Cargrim would have given much to have overheard this speech , but as the door and several passages were between him and the talker , he was ignorant of the incriminating remarks the bishop had let slip . Still baffled , but still curious , he busied himself with attending to some business of the See which did not require the personal supervision of Dr Pendle , and when that prelate took his departure for London by the three o'clock train , Cargrim attended him to the station , full of meekness and irritating attentions . It was with a feeling of relief that the bishop saw his officious chaplain left behind on the platform . He had a secret , and with the uneasiness of a loaded conscience , fancied that everyone saw that he had something to conceal -- particularly Cargrim . In the presence of that good young man , this spiritual lord , high-placed and powerful , felt that he resembled an insect under a microscope , and that Cargrim had his eye to the instrument .