“AS MANY LINES CLOSE IN THE DIAL’S CENTRE; SO MANY A THOUSAND ACTIONS, ONCE AFOOT, END IN ONE PURPOSE.”—_Henry V._ Looking just one week later in at the Dial, it would have been hard to credit that an interdict of weeks had but so recently been lifted from it. True enough Otto von Steinbach’s disastrous usurpation had left a fearsome chaos there; but out of it the hand of the master had brought back nearly all the old order; and not by any means the least diligent hands put forth to help him, were those which had compassed the confusion. Under discipline, as Dasipodius had said, Otto von Steinbach could do good work; and never as now had his heedless nature so schooled itself to fulfil the …
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