I got to work at once.

He was much interested in the Old Testament stories and said there were points of truth about them, although they had evidently come down to the modern writer--he called him a modern writer--in a legendary form.

I thought his remarks impertinent and with difficulty refrained from saying so.

Leaving the story of the Deluge and all that, I spoke of other matters, telling him of eternal life and Heaven and Hell, of which the poor benighted man had never heard.

I pointed out especially that unless he repented, his life, by all accounts, had been so wicked, that he was certainly destined to the latter place." "What did he say to that ?" I asked.
"Do you know, I think it frightened him, if one could imagine Oro being frightened.