oz THE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER.

Dr, Karwig. “ Has done nothing intentionally.
Cannot help the blow of the proboscis—cannot
know what the insect will do with the flower-dust
when it goes away. The races do not communi-
cate.” |

Sir Helix. “You call all these cases ‘ extra-
ordinary accidents’ ?”

Dr. Harwig. “Careless language, Sir Helix.
I only profess to have collected the facts. It is
for you and our learned friends to draw con-
clusions.”

Here ended the evidence. It now remained
for the bumbling barristers to give their opinions,
and the sitting magistrate to pronounce judgment.

By this time the day was wearing fast to sun-
set, and a rich glow was stealing into the air and
tinting the old walls of the ruined castle on the
cliff. Out at sea the sails were beginning to be

. darken’d in the west
And rosed in the east ;”

and even in the discussions which followed the