"Yes, madame. A rabbi told me the same thing."
"But it says that the Chaldean seers recommend --"
"What, madame?" For Catherine paused. "That the experiment be tried on the human brain."
"Alas! Your majesty knows that that is beyond our power."
"Do I? If we had known this on Bartholomew's eve, what a harvest we might have had! But the next time there is one to be hanged, I will see what can be done. Meantime, we must do what we can. Is everything ready now?"
"Yes, madame."
Ren é lighted a taper, and led the way into the cell. He took up one of the fowl from the corner, while Catherine selected a knife of blue steel.
"How shall we proceed?" he asked.
"We will examine the liver of one, and the brain of the other. If we get the same result as before from both, I shall be convinced. We
