What hope for it then, if you do not amend ?" "My father and my grandfather tolerated them." "Then, without some special extension of the grace of God, your father and your grandfather are burning in hell." "Insolent!" The king sprang from his seat.
"Sire, I will say what I hold to be the truth were you fifty times a king.

What care I for any man when I know that I speak for the King of kings?
See; are these the limbs of one who would shrink from testifying to truth ?" With a sudden movement he threw back the long sleeves of his gown and shot out his white fleshless arms.

The bones were all knotted and bent and screwed into the most fantastic shapes.

Even Louvois, the hardened man of the court, and his two brother priests, shuddered at the sight of those dreadful limbs.

He raised them above his head and turned his burning eyes upwards.
"Heaven has chosen me to testify for the faith before now," said he.
"I heard that blood was wanted to nourish the young Church of Siam, and so to Siam I journeyed.