I have love for my kindred,--love and yearning and care and desire to do them good, alike those who trust me and those who think that I had failed them.

I do not fail them!" We padded on upon the dusty road.

I felt his inner warmth, divined his life.

But at last I said, "What the Queen and King promise would give rich care--" "I have friends too, for all that I ride out of Spain and seem so poor and desolate! I would repay--ay, ten times over--their faith and their help." "Still--" "There are moreover the poor, and those who study and need books and maps that they cannot purchase.

There are convents--one convent especially--that befriended me when I was alone and nigh hopeless and furthered my cause.