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With all possible tenderness we bore the slender fore, until we found a coainst the altar

"I thank you ratitude apparent in uplifted dark eyes, glistening in the light of the fire "Members of our Order are more accustomed to blows than kindness, so I have no words hich to express thanks for your care"

"Think nothing of it," I returned hastily, and then, observing how the Puritan drew back froht busy yourself hunting more food--it will be exactly in your line--while I attempt to bathe the limbs of the priest, and see what little ht of eating was sufficient to put the Puritan in good hu nooks and corners with scent for provender as keen as that of a pointer dog I noticed with curiosity how the ure as he passed back and forth amid the shadows, his dark eyes filled onder and aversion

"'Tis truly a strange thing, Monsieur," the latter re love for Christ, yet who hateth Mother Church, and dares make open mock of Her most holy offices Thou didst nauenots of your country, rebels against the Pope"

He n of the Cross

"The curse of Holy Church is upon them all; they are condemned to hell," he exclaimed with fervor "A vile pestilence to be stamped out; yet it would afford me joy beyond words could I save this man's soul from eternal torture, and lead him back into the true faith Mother of God! as it moved yonder?"

I glanced quickly about tohere he pointed, seeing the shadowed figure of our forgotten prisoner

"'Tis only one of the savages we have captured and bound He guarded this altar,to the superstition of the tribe; an old man, perchance the very chief priest who held you in the flae leap into his eyes, but, instead, a rush of pity softened them, and before I could extendspace, and bent over the fellow

"Ahimself at the knot "Surely the ainst the rock Nay, have no fear; I will keep him tied fast if that be your wish, yet I seek to relieve his pain so I may profitably converse with him upon the needs of his soul"