_He,_ and his kind, last and live." Mr.Mool had neither time nor inclination to plead in favour of the more hopeful view, which believes in the agreeable fiction called "Poetical justice." He tried to express his sense of obligation at parting.
Baccani refused to listen.
"The obligation is all on my side," he said.

"As I have already told you, your visit has added a bright day to my calendar.

In our pilgrimage, my friend, through this world of rogues and fools, we may never meet again.

Let us remember gratefully that we _have_ met.
Farewell." So they parted.
Returning to his office, Mr.Mool attached to the copy of the confession a brief statement of the circumstances under which the Italian had become possessed of it.

He then added these lines, addressed to Benjulia:--_"You_ set the false report afloat.