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"You arethe difficulty, Jervis," said Thorndyke "The body may, of course, be anywhere in the entire world, but the place where it is lying is either inside or outside the general boundary of these two parishes If it has been deposited within the boundary of those two parishes, the factthe burial certificates issued since the date when the isters of those specified places of burial I think that if no record can be found of any such interment within the boundary of those two parishes, that fact will be taken by the Court as proof that no such interment has taken place, and that therefore the body must have been deposited elsewhere Such a decision would constitute George Hurst the co-executor and residuary legatee"

"That is cheerful for your friends, Berkeley," Jervis remarked, "for we may take it as pretty certain that the body has not been deposited in any of the places naloomily, "I'm afraid there is very little doubt of that But what an ass the fellow must have been to make such a to-do about his beastly carcass? What the deuce could it have mattered to him where it was dumped, when he had done with it?"

Thorndyke chuckled softly "Thus the irreverent youth of to-day," said he "But yours is hardly a fair co makes us materialists, and puts us a little out of sympathy with those in whom primitive beliefs and emotions survive A worthy priest who ca-room expressed surprise to me that students, thus constantly in the presence of relics ofbut the resurrection and the life hereafter He was a bad psychologist There is nothing so dead as a dissecting-room 'subject'; and the conte quietly taken to pieces--being resolved into its structural units like a worn-out clock or an old engine in the Mr Rapper's yard--is certainly not conducive to a vivid realisation of the doctrine of the resurrection"

"No; but this absurd anxiety to be buried in soious belief; it is mere silly sentiment"

"It is sentiment, I admit," said Thorndyke, "but I wouldn't call it silly The feeling is so widespread in ti inherent in huhayptians, whose chief aspiration was that of everlasting repose for the dead See the trouble they took to achieve it Think of the Great Pyramid, or that of Aes and its sealed and hidden sepulchral chamber Think of Jacob, borne after death all those hundreds of weary ht sleep with his fathers, and then remember Shakespeare and his solemn adjuration to posterity to let hirave No, Berkeley, it is not a silly sentiment I am as indifferent as you as to what becomes of my body 'when I have done with it,' to use your irreverent phrase; but I recognise the solicitude that so that has to be taken seriously"