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"'Tis very possible that he is right, madman as he is, Doctor Jacques," replied his comrade in the same low tone, and with a bitter smile

"As you please," replied Coictier dryly Then, addressing the archdeacon: "You are clever at your trade, Dom Claude, and you are no more at a loss over Hippocrates than a monkey is over a nut Medicine a dream! I suspect that the pharmacopolists and theyou if they were here So you deny the influence of philtres upon the blood, and unguents on the skin! You deny that eternal pharmacy of flowers and metals, which is called the world, made expressly for that eternal invalid called man!"

"I deny," said Dom Claude coldly, "neither pharmacy nor the invalid I reject the physician"

"Then it is not true," resuout is an internal eruption; that a wound caused by artillery is to be cured by the application of a youngblood, properly injected, restores youth to aged veins; it is not true that two and two make four, and that emprostathonos follows opistathonos"

The archdeacon replied without perturbation: "There are certain things of which I think in a certain fashion"

Coictier becaood Coictier, let us not get angry," said Gossip Tourangeau "Monsieur the archdeacon is our friend"

Coictier cal in a low tone,-"After all, he's mad"

"~Pasque-dieu~, Master Claude," resureatly I had two things to consult you upon, one touchingmy star"

"Monsieur," returned the archdeacon, "if that be your motive, you would have done as well not to put yourself out of breath cli my staircase I do not believe in Medicine I do not believe in Astrology"

"Indeed!" said the h

"You see that he is eau "He does not believe in astrology"

"The idea of i," pursued Dom Claude, "that every ray of a star is a thread which is fastened to the head of a man!"

"And what then, do you believe in?" exclaieau

The archdeacon hesitated for a looive the lie to his response: "~Credo in Deu the sign of the cross

"Aeau, "I aious frareat savant as you are, of no longer believing in science?"