This was Brand's house then--that vivid orator, so bitterly eloquent against God; and here was he, a priest, slinking in under cover of night.

Well, well, it was not of his appointment.
At the door of an upstairs room the maid turned to him.
"A doctor, sir ?" she said.
"That is my affair," said Percy briefly, and opened the door.
* * * * * A little wailing cry broke from the corner, before he had time to close the door again.
"Oh! thank God! I thought He had forgotten me.

You are a priest, father ?" "I am a priest.

Do you not remember seeing me in the Cathedral ?" "Yes, yes, sir; I saw you praying, father.

Oh! thank God, thank God!" Percy stood looking down at her a moment, seeing her flushed old face in the nightcap, her bright sunken eyes and her tremulous hands.