You haven't let anybody--I mean, you haven't been buying any prehistoric bones, have you, Mr.Bawdrey ?" "Oh, that ?" laughed the old man, turning round and seeing to what he was alluding.

"Oh, that's a curiosity of quite a different sort, Mr.
Rickaby.

You are right in saying it looks like a doctor's specimen.

It is--or, rather, it was.

Mrs.Bawdrey's father was a doctor, and it once belonged to him.