Chapter XL - Three years later

CHAPTER XL.
THREE YEARS LATER

WHEN I broke the back of knight-errantry that
time, I no longer felt obliged to work in secret.
So, the very next day I exposed my hidden schools,
my mines, and my vast system of clandestine factories
and workshops to an astonished world. That is to
say, I exposed the nineteenth century to the inspec-
tion of the sixth.

Well, it is always a good plan to follow up an
advantage promptly. The knights were temporarily