“Meaning? Well, all things, we’re told, have their purpose, Mr. Humphreys, and I suppose these blocks have had theirs as well as another. But what that purpose is or was (Mr. Cooper assumed a didactic attitude here), I, for one, should be at a loss to point out to you, sir. All I know of them—and it’s summed up in a very few words—is just this: that they’re stated to have been removed by your late uncle, at a period before I entered on the scene, from the maze. That, Mr. Humphreys, is———"
“Oh, the maze!” exclaimed Humphreys. “I'd forgotten that: we must have a look at it. Where is it ?”
Cooper drew him to the door of the temple, and pointed with his stick. “Guide your eye,” he said (somewhat in the manner of the Second Elder in Handel’s “Susanna”—
Where yon tall holm-tree rises to the skies.”)
“Guide your eye by my stick here, and follow out the line directly opposite to the spot where were standing now, and I'll engage, Mr.
