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"It would be less terrifying to ravely, her eyes questioning my face, as if to read therein what answer I desired "I have that about ers toyed with the beads of a rosary at her throat, "which would protect me froure? I was so gravely startledsufficient strength for the uplifting of a hand So speak, Mada,--was that flesh and blood, or was it sohastly visitant from the unknown?"

"I believe," she answered firmly, "it was human To my eyes a wild man, partially arrayed in white skins, decorated with a hastly tall, and weirdly distorted in the ht--a fiend, indeed, yet not of the upper air"

"An Indian?"

"I know not what other naely fair in the sheen for one of the red race"

My roving, unsatisfied eyes met those of De Noyan

"Blessed Mother!" he ejaculated with a short, uneasy laugh "I never would have thought it in the night Holy Saints preserve s e, and I would not swear but Eloise ht"

"And you, friend Cairnes?" In a few, brief English sentences I retold to the sectary this opinion expressed by Madaloo oddly ere he found speech

"Nay," he muttered at last, "you know little about such ain that it was the Devil my eyes saice have I looked upon hiood Lord delivered His servant froe of sin, the snares of the fowler Not by carnal weapons of the flesh are we bidden to overco; even as did he of old wrestle with the angel, are we to master the adversary of souls"

"Madame possesses that also," and I pointed to the rosary at her white throat, "by which she is able to resist the contamination of evil"

He sniffed disdainfully, his coarse red hair appearing to bristle all over his bullet head

"'T is a foul device designed to rob rily "I say to you, it was the voice of prayer which caused that foul fiend to fly away to his own The prayer of the righteous availeth much"