'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.'" "He must have an instrument for his wrath.

He shall work through me in this." "Pierre, you blaspheme." "'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'" "It was a demon in me that quoted that in your hearing, and not myself." "The horse, Father Victor--may I have the roan ?" "Pierre, I command you--" The light in the blue eyes was as cold and steady as that in the starved eyes of Jean Paul Victor.
"Hush!" he said calmly.

"For the sake of the love that I bear for you, do not command me." The stern priest dropped his head.

He said at last: "I have nothing saving one great and terrible treasure which I see was predestined to you.

It is the cross of Father Meilan.