"Something struck you, eh?"
The Bishop did not at once answer. He asked a question instead. "When did the rigor mortis pass off?"
The doctor seemed a little startled. "It had already passed off when the body came under my supervision."
Dr. Marriott looked at him with an air of gentle surprise. "A little early for that to happen, surely?"
"No," said the doctor, with all the firmness of an expert to a layman.
"I know so little of these matters," murmured the Bishop. "But when I underwent one of those three-year medical courses at our local university— you know, for missionaries who may have to do a good deal of amateur healing in their lonely cures—"
"Oh, you've had some medical training, have you?" interrupted the doctor, a little disconcerted, as the expert always is when he finds he
