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MR JOSEPH COSTELLO prided himself on his habit of taking a stroll before breakfast during his annual holiday. As a matter of fact, in so priding himself he was making a virtue of what had originally been a necessity; for, some years earlier, this very disagreeable form of medicament had been prescribed for him by his physician as a method of combating his increasing tendency to embonpoint. From being at first a dreary pilgrimage to the shrine of health, this morning walk had later become a delightful indulgence, and Mr Costello would have abandoned it with reluctance even if his medical adviser had pointed out that VOL. CCXX.-NO. MCCCXXIX. his increased appetite for breakfast was reflected in his figure more than the additional exercise. On the morning of 15th September 1906, at 7.30 A.M., Mr Costello was strolling along the cliffs which front the sea on the eastern side of the entrance to Cork Harbour, when he perceived that there was a considerable increase in the activities of the sea-gulls. The south-westerly gale which had been raging for the previous three days had, during the night, been succeeded by a calm, and a fine haze shrouding the sea and the lighthouse at the harbour's mouth seemed to presage a warm sunny day and an easterly breeze. A .The screaming of the birds and the thump of the waves on the rocks at the foot of the low cliffs came fitfully through the mist. The noise of the birds brought pleasantly to Mr Costello's mind the thought that there would probably be good mackerel fishing when the tide turned. The gulls were, by the sound of them, working over shoals of sprats, and shoals of sprats meant shoals of mackerel. Mr Costello was fond of mackerel. At this point his reflections were interrupted by a sudden swoop of wings in the mist. A pair of screaming gulls dropped, fighting, almost on his head. Mr Costello involuntarily cut at them with his stick. His dog sprang upwards and barked violently. birds, alarmed by this suddenly revealed danger, flashed apart and were swallowed up in the haze, and something dropped with a soft thud on the grass right at Mr Costello's feet. The The dog jumped forward to examine it. Mr Costello aimed a kick at him, and stooping down picked up the object which had thus descended to him out of the skies. He had thought it was a small fish, but one glance showed him that it was not. He turned it over in his hand, and then with an exclamation of disgust, dropped it. It was a human finger! The dog, seeing his chance, jumped in again to seize this treasuretrove, but his master's kick was better timed. Mr Costello was now in a quandary. He could not leave this human relic to his dog, nor did he feel that he could throw it over the cliff to be devoured by fish or sea-gulls, and yet he disliked the idea of carrying it home and burying it. He was, however, in his public life a prosperous butcher, and sentiment bad but little place in his welloiled existence, so presently he stooped down again, and, picking up the finger, wrapped it in his handkerchief (it would wash, he told himself), and with his curiously personal outlook on life turned his steps towards his breakfast without any undue speculation as to where the finger came from or what he was to do about it. If he had thought about it at all he would have considered that he could act more to advantage with a full stomach than an empty one, and he was probably right. It was quite in keeping with Mr Costello's well-ordered routine that he should have applied himself to the consumption of a hearty breakfast before communicating to his wife, and to his nephew, Michael, the incident which had terminated his morning stroll. During the meal he discussed the prospects of mackerel fishing and the weather, and it was not until he had lighted his pipe and assured himself that it was drawing satisfactorily that he produced the knotted handkerchief, un |