the eloquence of Professor Hanky; he promised
to avoid all like offence in future, and threw himself on the mercy of
the court.

"The Mayor, unwilling that Sunday's memorable ceremony should be the
occasion of a serious punishment to any of those who took part in it,
reprimanded the prisoner in a few severe but not unkindly words,
inflicted a fine of forty shillings, and ordered that the prisoner should
be taken directly to the temple, where he should confess his folly to the
Manager and Head Cashier, and confirm his words by kissing the reliquary
in which the newly found relic has been placed. The prisoner being
unable to pay the fine, some of the ladies and gentlemen in court kindly
raised the amount amongst them, in pity for the poor creature's obvious
contrition, rather than see him sent to prison for a month in default of
payment.

"The prisoner was then conducted to the temple, followed by a
considerable number of people. Strange to say, in spite of the
overwhelming evidence that they had just heard, some few among the
followers, whose love of the marvellous overpowered their reason, still
maintained that the prisoner was the Sunchild. Nothing could be more
decorous than the prisoner's behaviour when, after hearing the
recantation that was read out to him by the Manager, he signed the
document with his name and address, which we again withhold, and kissed
the reliquary in confirmation of his words.

"The Mayor then declared the prisoner to be at liberty. When he had done
so he said, 'I strongly urge you to place yourself under my protection
for the present, that you may be freed from the impertinent folly and
curiosity of some whose infatuation might lead you from that better mind
to which I believe you are now happily restored. I wish you to remain
for some few hours secluded in the privacy of my own study, where Dr.
Downie and the two excellent Professors will administer that ghostly
counsel to you, which will be likely to protect you from any return of
your unhappy delusion.'

"The man humbly bowed assent, and was taken by the Mayor's younger sons
to the Mayor's own house, where he was duly cared for. About midnight,
when all was quiet, he was conducted to the outskirts of the town towards
Clearwater, and furnished with enough money to provide for his more
pressing necessities till he could reach some relatives who reside three
or four days' walk down on the road towards the capital. He desired the