CHAPTER VIII

MR. PARKER TAKES NOTES "_A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After_ _gazing at it a little in silence: 'I don't believe it,' he_ _said_." Parker's first impulse was to doubt his own sanity; his next, to doubt Lady Mary's. Then, as the clouds rolled away from his brain, he decided that she was merely not speaking the truth. "Come, Lady Mary," he said encouragingly, but with an accent of reprimand as to an over-imaginative child, "you can't expect us to believe that, you know." "…