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The sectary's rough, gray face reddened until it was nearly the color of his hair

"'Tis false!" he growled, ser "You only lead the way straight to hell with your false doctrine Have you made any converts to the Roman harlot in this tribe?"

"Nay, Monsieur, I cannot lay claim to such reward" His eyes slowly uplifted to the face of his questioner "Jesu hath not as yet opened beforethe hich leadeth to their hearts I can but work, and pray for guidance I have only baptised one as dying of a fever, and sprinkled with holy water an infant, unknown to its ood Mary for the salvation of those precious souls"

"Saints of Israel! do you think that muht of our Order?"

I shall never forget the look upon Cairnes's face At thewith temptation to strike the helpless man, so irritated was he by these confident words of Romish faith Determined to prevent discussion, I elbowed his of the Jesuit

"Enough of this," I said sternly, barely glancing at Cairnes "Keep the rest of your Puritanical ser for a conventicle We have here a fellow-Christian to be rescued frole over creeds"

"A fellow-Christian! I hold no fellowship with such; he is but an eion, a slave to the Evil One"

"Enough, I say," and I rose to ht in doctrine, you or he Here is aaid of us in extremity Surely the priest has suffered for the sake of Christ, regarding whoth on this knife-blade until I bend back the h, to ood a turn to the steel with his vice-like fingers that in another moment the Jesuit was released fro fast towearily, his thin lips pressed tightly together as if he would stifle a cry of pain

"Are you suffering?" I asked, greatly ony imprinted on his pallid face

"It will pass, Monsieur," he answered bravely, trying to se the spirit of man is so enslaved to the flesh that one cannot wholly master a bit of physical pain No doubt I a ihtly healed"