I rejoice in the repentance of any sinner.

I pray, my son, that in the future you may be guarded from all such perilous courses." Arthur almost trembled as these words were spoken.

The cardinal's wonderful eyes were fixed full upon the face of Dalaber, and the magnetic nature of the glance seemed to act with a curious, restraining power upon him.

He spoke, but it was not with the outburst which his comrade had feared.

It was slowly and almost haltingly.
"I have done amiss," he said.