The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-26

| snail be content to take yOu so.
She felt convp ced that this last pretext was
a pure invention of his brain, devised to serve
| al your brother be desiroue of this mar
rage and bsth the share you tell me in these
loans, be must concur with you in signing
release to all my fathers interest pending pie
life, before can agree to plight my ttosn,
she answered decidedly. declare that GER
tes / will rot take q step therein unless my
father be secured lis house and income until
his death, and as your sole pledges were on
your own showing not enough, must rave
your brothers. bond as well, and those of ali
the other creditors. l will not sell myself at
| any cheaper rate"
Rogers finding that he had gained nothing
by bis lie, grew wrathful.
CLARA" be exclaimed. 81 will have you for
my wife whatever you may say. Your father
| is beggar from this day forth, and II you
| would stave off mis- disgrace and save him from
distonor you must take me now for better or
| worse. I am resolved upon 1t. love you
| more than any one on earth and you VIII soon
! learn to love me, a true and good wife can
not fail to do. If not, 30 much the worse lor
you"
Instead of replying to this coarse and angry
| speech she turned away and almost ran TO-
wards the house without once looking back.
! "Clara! Mics Finch y he cried following
| her. only hear me y but be called in vain, Tor
closing q door behind her she escaped ascend-
ing the staircase aud threading some secret
| passa ages until she came to the chapel, opened
| by key concealed in place kro~n only TO
| the inmates of the mansion. She locked the
door behind her and kneeliDS down before
the tabernacle, burst into a food of tears
| After consuming hour in searching Tor
her, Rogers remounted his horse, having learnt
from the domestic that Gervase Sacheverlil
had been there a visit to Dame 1ste, VINO
had since gone forth up'n her errsna OF
| charity.
| CHAPTER XIII.
Father Vail in London.
Since the panic of the ancient Athenans at
the discovery of the mutilation of the Hermes
busts here has rarely occurred more singular
instance of national terror and infatuatlon than
| that which overwhelmed the Londoners 10 %
| tober 1878
Titus Oates. clergyman of the Church of
Eugland (but deprived of his ben.tice and
under censure of his superiors on account OF
his scanda alous life and questionable doctrine)
had long led q vagrant life, and was nusly
reduced TO destitution A certain Dr. Ionge'
of St. Mich aePs, Wood street. who was olgot-
ed no Popery alarmist of the period, took hlm
up as an apt tool to outwit the Jesuits, with
what he conceived to be their own weapons.
At his suggestion Oates feigning himself con-
vert Joined the Eugish Jesuit College at VAL
ladolid in some inferior capacity, whence no w.
ever, after five months, he was dlsgrscefui!y
elected. He then tried st. Oners. which he
. seems to have entered a postulaut while
Father Wbitebread was Master of Novices, but
TO have been discovered as an imposter and
expelled before admission into the novitlate.
He returned TO London in the ear ly sumuer OF
r 1913 with sGch scraps of il nformation as he had
been able to giean aDoDt the coiuSs OF Toe
. Fathers, among which was the fact th2t IL
-
! the Society ia England had held a consult ~
London, which VA, in reality the usual tr.e,-
! nal congregation Ci tue ftoNihCe' 1H4H
gathering hEd in iucc "cCnrTed at ct. james
| Palace, the DuFe OF faFks residence, ha'
= in gv~iling tneue"ives "f this plece OF lht"r
nation Tor their fi"t inhS ann JAZZ ucoI'e et
: 20 lay its venne az The White Horse laVern IL
tie Strand. On these very slender hstetiAI'
. they constructed ~ha' u Gteab Mouetu n'e'o
!, riaU LSIacau'ay) "ptly de7crlhe' as "a hideon:
: romance, resembling rather the dream OF sicf
y man than any trar-"otion which ever TOOK piec'
5 in tue real world According TO their mar
n ratiye' the consultation had been held TO de
J. wise the most eligible means OF asea79inatinI
the X k'rG and su3>eTtlpS the Irotes1aht rel'e
ion. IL supp"rt OF this they Inveuten gTea
lie mass Of cohtir mAtory evldence to sho" INA
81 the Pope Ndn t"lFu5Itu me PoNs hithV
England I" the J41tiNs' anu tust '"eeo 49,
q, mad by COMMISSIONS nnher the seal OF the sc
t. cIety appointed jeadt"G Catholics TO ai U
highest Offices of the State. They aVerred Una
d. the late Fire of London had been the Work q
ID the Papists aud THAI tney were now prepare
as to burn all the shipping 10 the Lhames aho,
a signal, TO aud massacre ali the