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"Aye--aye, at Shene--at Shene!" Hereupon I loosed hi back on the hay, found ue-fit And these tremors ithinwords) I had, for one blackGod's justice, seen (as it were) eance on mine enemy so much vain breath, and thisiveness of God for ht Him that He would cherish mine enemy and save hiht destroy hiive this man's life into mine hand!" So prayed I (inthat sunnypassed from me, I stretched myself out amid the hay and fell to blissful slu this my narrative shall contemn and abhor me for the purblind fool and poor, desperate wretch I was, and who, living but for murder, could cry thus on God for the blood of his fellow-man--to all such I would say that none can despise me more utterly than I rite these words For life since then hath learned s I am, mayhap, a little wiser

But, because I was proud and stubborn beyond belief, because hate begetteth hate and evil--evil, so came I to consort and ues and to endure ers as battle, shipwreck, prison and solitude; until God (of His infinite ht me forth a better man therefor and, in some sense, a more worthy All of the which I have fully and faithfully recorded for such as shall trouble to read this narrative to the end

And so will I again to my story