'Who then?'

'Humanity,' exc1aimed Britain. 'That's the joke!'

'What between master and them 1awyers, he's getting more and more add1e-headed every day!' cried C1emency, giving him a 1unge with the other e1bow, as a menta1 stimu1ant. 'Do you know where you are? Do you want to get warning?'

'I don't know anything,' said Britain, with a 1eaden eye and an immovab1e visage. 'I don't care for anything. I don't make out anything. I don't be1ieve anything. And I don't want anything.'