Boulter sends.--
Yours respectfully, Samuel Barker."
Gould handed the two letters across to Moon, who examined them.
But for the vocal divergences in the matter of h's and a's,
the Sub-Warden's letter was exactly as Gould had rendered it;
and both that and the porter's letter were plainly genuine.
Moon handed them to Inglewood, who handed them back in silence
to Moses Gould.
"So far as this first charge of continual attempted murder is concerned,"
said Dr. Pym, standing up for the last time, "that is my case."
Michael Moon rose for the defence with an air of depression which gave
little hope at the outset to the sympathizers with the prisoner.
He did not, he said, propose to follow the doctor into the
abstract questions. "I do not know enough to be an agnostic,"
he said, rather wearily, "and I can only master the known and admitted
elements in such controversies. As for science and religion,
the known and admitted facts are plain enough. All that the parsons
say is unproved. All that the doctors say is disproved.
That's the only difference between science and religion there's ever been,
or will be. Yet these new discoveries touch me, somehow," he said,
looking down sorrowfully at his boots.
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