to the city, and now
to the desert--as though it wished to exhibit Judas to both city and
desert. But in whichever direction his face, distorted by death, was
turned, his red eyes suffused with blood, and now as like one another
as two brothers, incessantly looked towards the sky. In the morning some
sharp-sighted person perceived Judas hanging above the city, and cried
out in horror.

People came and took him down, and knowing who he was, threw him into a
deep ravine, into which they were in the habit of throwing dead horses
and cats and other carrion.

The same evening all the believers knew of the terrible death of the
Traitor, and the next day it was known to all Jerusalem. Stony Judaea
knew of it and green Galilee; and from one sea to the other, distant as
it was, the news flew of the death of the Traitor.

Neither faster nor slower, but with equal pace with Time itself, it
went, and as there is no end to Time so will there be no end to the
stories about the Traitor Judas and his terrible death.

And all--both good and bad--will equally anathematise his shameful
memory; and among all peoples, past and present, will he remain alone in
his cruel destiny--Judas Iscariot, the Traitor.

"THE MAN WHO FOUND THE TRUTH"

CHAPTER I

I was twenty-seven years old and had just maintained my thesis for
the degree of Doctor of Mathematics with unusual success, when I was
suddenly seized in the middle of the night and thrown into this prison.
I shall not narrate to you the details of the monstrous crime of which
I was accused--there are events which people should neither remember
nor even know, that they may not acquire a feeling of aversion for
themselves; but no doubt there are many people among the living who
remember that terrible case and "the human brute," as the newspapers
called me at that time. They probably remember how the entire civilised
society of the land unanimously demanded that the criminal be put to
death, and it is due only to the inexplicable kindness of the man at
the head of the Government at the time that I am alive, and I now write
these lines for the edification of the weak and the wavering.

I shall say briefly: My father, my elder brother, and my sister were
murdered brutally, and I was supposed to have committed the crime for
the purpose of securing a really enormous inheritance.

I am an old man now; I shall die soon, and you have not the slightest
ground for doubting when