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"There is no doubt about that," I said, as he laid the book upon the table "I want to try this thing once more Here is Pascal; if you can find any reference to the 'Serpent of the Nile' in that, you needn't go any farther, I shall be satisfied," and I passed the book to hies over in silence for half a uess this counts as a failure,--no, though, by Jove! Look here!" His face was of ale it indicated as he held the book toward lanced with some anxiety from his face to the book, and read, as nearly as I now can remember: "If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the entire face of the world would have been changed"

It was soained his co that tith, and his rave, even for him: "What do you make of it?" I didn't knohat to norance with a frankness at which, considering my profession, I have often since had occasion to marvel I told hiround of mere coincidence, and I called his attention to that part of "The Mystery of Marie Roget," where Poe figures out the mathematical likelihood of a certain co found to obtain in the case of two young wole reference to Cleopatra had been a thing of so infrequent occurrence as to at once challenge Maitland's attention, as to be said when, all of a sudden, her name, or soe he read?

"'There is so in this more than natural, If philosophy could find it out,'"

murmured Maitland, more to himself than to me "Come, what do you say?" and he turned abruptly tolooks so peculiar to him in moments of exciteive my opinion now and here, without a moment's reflection Very well; you have just quoted 'Has in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy!'