a i felt i had disgraced my people so i held close and went on here just like the rest but though i ve not virtue nor courage enough to take the first part i ll always be your second so reckon upon me i ll always back you up there are two or three more among us put in for as trifling as yours and i fear they are all you can permanently reckon upon for the next time the priest comes who does not come very often the others will go to him to confess and confess other people s faults or what they consider such as well as their own so he ll soon know all you and then he ll warn them against the you and they ll keep apart from you you ll see i s fears however were not fully realized it was a good while before the priest came at all secondly had meantime grown such a favorite that not one of his companions would speak ill of him the who was aware of a great change among his charges and thought it no sin to play and hear if any mischief were became a decided patron of and felt heartily obliged to him for his companions to order when the priest heard the fact reluctantly confessed that a prisoner was obtaining great influence over them the fact was so and by various accompanying statements that he thought it best to content with a very gentle charge to his to beware of being led astray by their ears let the charm never so wisely finally he played himself two or three times without being able to detect any harm and held a with mildly reminding him the old law for burning a minister who attempted to convert a catholic had never been and that though he was a he exposed himself to very said so little in reply and that little so gently that the old man could find no pretext for attacking him and being really of a mild and pacific disposition thought he might as well leave the matter alone meanwhile with a rusty nail blackened with a mixture of and for his had written out nearly all the gospel of st john on the walls of the yard this was the text book by the aid of which he taught his scholars to read and to commit portions of scripture to memory he told them this was a golden opportunity which might never occur to them again and even the most were aroused to a little exertion while the ardent made rapid and progress while all were his friends was his friend who hung upon everything he said everything he could out of him reason the ed him learned of him and aided him ia every way he could had it not been for the generosity of these poor fellows and the s humanity would have ill at the commencement of his for hia friends at and la tour could not immediately journey to nor obtain access to him when they got there but at length made his appearance loaded with a miscellaneous collection of good things which enabled to feast those who had shared their own scanty supplies with him and moreover brought a purse containing a small sum indeed but sufficient for the s w ts during the remainder of his imprisonment which had been collected for him in among the of he accepted this with as much simplicity as gratitude for the workman ia worthy of his hire and he knew that in spite of the reason of his punishment he was ia reality suffering his testimony to the cross of christ and now the time came when he was to regain his liberty to the no small regret of all those whom he was leaving behind how earnestly how affectionately did he them fo keep up to the mark he had set before them and press onward instead of falling off as soon as his personal influence was withdrawn as for he was resolved to become a as soon as his term was out which would be not long after s and he persuaded him to await him before he crossed the that they might travel awhile together with a sense of the blessing of liberty which nothing but the loss of it can give descended the rock of thanking god as he went at the foot of the steep road a man sitting on the bank started up and spoke to him and to his no small amazement he found himself greeted by john the hour and the man i cried john seizing him by tlie hand and working his arm like a pump handle you little thought to see me i fancy but i ve been watching for you this hour more i knew you were here and the would come out to day � have known it some weeks my lord is stopping in on purpose to see you oh what a lot of things i have to tell you to be sure i must begin with the end and end with the beginning when we got into the valleys a fortnight ago we found all the in a about your and making quite a personal of it every man ing it home to his own hearth and heart well my lord thought the transaction such a shame even before he remembered who you were f brought that to his mind that he took it up quite warmly and spoke of it in the public rooms and called on m and m and wrote to the of the district to beg him to let you out it was no go in prison you must stay in spite of lord s and calling it a disgrace to the times so finding your time was almost out he resolved to wait quietly in the valleys 