"Like your own theories, my dear Professor!" said a rich laughing voice, as Lucio met him on his way, and the bijou theatre was again flooded with cheerful light. "They are
amusing to some, and disgusting to others! Pardon me!
I speak of course in jest! But I designed that tableau specially in your honour!"
"Oh, you did, did you?" growled the Professor. "Well, I didn't appreciate it."
"Yet you should have done, for it is quite scientifically correct," declared Lucio laughing still. "Faith, with the wings, whom you saw joyously flying towards an impossible heaven, is not scientifically correct,—have you not told us so? —but the skeleton and the worms were quite of your cult I No materialist can deny the correctness of that ' complexion to which we all must come at last.' Positively, som
