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Here Jacques Coictier, who had been unhorsed by the archdeacon's iained his saddle, and interrupted hi another,--"~Erras amice Claudi~ The symbol is not the number You take Orpheus for Hermes"

"'Tis you who are in error," replied the archdeacon, gravely "Daedalus is the base; Orpheus is the wall; Hermes is the edifice,--that is all You shall coeau, "I will show you the little parcels of gold which remained at the bottom of Nicholas Flaold of Guillaume de Paris I will teach you the secret virtues of the Greek word, ~peristera~ But, first of all, I will make you read, one after the other, the es of the book We shall go to the portal of Bishop Guillaume and of Saint-Jean le Rond at the Sainte- Chapelle, then to the house of Nicholas Flamel, Rue Manvault, to his tomb, which is at the Saints-Innocents, to his two hospitals, Rue de Montlyphics which cover the four great iron cramps on the portal of the hospital Saint-Gervais, and of the Rue de la Ferronnerie We will spell out in company, also, the façade of Saint-Come, of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Ardents, of Saint Martin, of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie--"

For a long tilance, had appeared not to understand Dom Claude He interrupted

"~Pasque-dieu~! what are your books, then?"

"Here is one of the theof his cell he pointed out with his finger the iainst the starry sky the black silhouette of its ters, its stone flanks, its monstrous haunches, seemed an enormous two-headed sphinx, seated in the antic edifice for soh, towards the printed book which lay open on the table, and his left towards Notre-Dalance from the book to the church,--"Alas," he said, "this will kill that"

Coictier, who had eagerly approached the book, could not repress an exclamation "Hé, but nohat is there so foroe, Antonius Koburger~, 1474' This is not new 'Tis a book of Pierre Lombard, the Master of Sentences Is it because it is printed?"

"You have said it," replied Claude, who see, his forefinger bent backward on the folio which had co Then he added these s cos; a tooth triumphs over a mass The Nile rat kills the crocodile, the swordfish kills the whale, the book will kill the edifice"