"The Swindlers' Gazette, of course, or the
Church Calendar."
"Sh-sh! Rivarez, we are disturbing the other
readers."
"Well then, stick to your surgery, if that's
your subject, and l-l-leave me to th-theology--
that's mine. I d-d-don't interfere with your
treatment of broken bones, though I know a
p-p-precious lot more about them than you do."
He sat down to his volume of sermons with an
intent and preoccupied face. One of the librarians
came up to him.
"Signor Rivarez! I think you were in the
Duprez expedition, exploring the tributaries of the
Amazon? Perhaps you will kindly help us in a
difficulty. A lady has been inquiring for the
records of the expedition, and they are at the
binder's."
"What does she want to know?"
"Only in what year the expedition started and
when it passed through Ecuador."
"It started from Paris in the autumn of 1837,
and passed through Quito in April, 1838. We
were three years in Brazil; then went down to Rio
and got back to Paris in the summer of 1841.
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