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More convinced than before, that there was evil here, I could not endure

that my master should be deceived; that one like him, so pure and noble,

should respect what, if my suspicions were true, orse than the

ordinary deceptions of priestcraft I could not tell how far he ht be

led to countenance, and otherwise support their doings, before he should

find cause to repent bitterly of his error I watched the new procession

yet more keenly, if possible, than the forirl; and, at the close, I observed, yetpush What happened to the victih, and I could bear it no

longer I stooped, and whispered to the young girl who stood by ht not be entirely

out of keeping with the sole unquestioned She looked up, half-a whether I was in earnest or not But in her perplexity, she

permitted me to unfasten it, and slip it down fro down on my knees in the

crowd, I rose apparently in the habit of one of the worshippers

Giving e for the return of

her stole, for I wished to test the matter unarmed, and, if it was a man

that sat upon the throne, to attack him with hands bare, as I supposed

his h the crowd to the front, while the

singing yet continued, desirous of reaching the platform while it was

unoccupied by any of the priests I was per

avenue of white robes un looks in many