"When it wills to climb." "I do but lay it before the Sovereigns," he answered.

"I do not know what they will think of it there.

But truly I know not what else to do with these Asiatics when they withstand us! And even in slavery they must gain from Christians! What matters masters when they find the True Master ?" Juan Lepe brooded still while the pen scratched and scratched across the page.

The noise ceased.

I looked up to see if he were in pain again, and met gray-blue eyes as longing as a child's.