Little Winn is like her mother, Nat." "And she lives with him ?" "Er, yes--and guarded, oh, so carefully guarded by Strang, Nat! Yes, I guess that some day she will be a queen." "Great God!" cried the young man.

"And you--you live in this cesspool of sin and still believe in a Heaven ?" "Yes, I believe in a Heaven.

And my reward there shall be great.

Ho, ho, I am taking no middle road, Nat!" They had passed in a semicircle beyond the temple and now approached a squat building constructed of logs, which Obadiah had pointed out as the jail.

A glance satisfied Nathaniel that it was so situated that an admirable view of the proceedings could be obtained from the rear of the structure in which Strang had his office.