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 principum mundi fiat mentio, eadem ratio afferri potest, quæ affertur in articulo 4. Symboli de eodem Pontio Pilato.

, &c.]—Quoniam Joannes non nisi a Deo legitimè vocatus officium verbi Dei predicandi exercuit: ideo hîc de legitimâ vocatione ministrorum Ecclesiæ parochus disseret, ut habetur de sacram. Ordinis, p. 212, et seqq. legitimosque, eos ministros non esse dicat, qui missi non sunt, ut traditur in præfatione.

.]—Hic de probitate et morum integritate ministrorum verbi (qui sunt sacerdotes) agatur ex codem loco 212, et seq. et de castitate, quæ eis, quando fiunt subdiaconi, indicitur, ut hab. ibidem.

.]—Quomodo adulti, qui baptismum suscipere debent, affecti esse debeant, et præteritæ eos vitæ poenitere, traditur, p. 126, et seqq.

.]—Hic de præparatione ad Eucharistiam, de qua in superiori Dominica, et de necessaria mandatorum Dei observantia, de qua, p. 237, et seqq. vel. "et confessus est, et non negavit," ut in Dominica præcedenti.

, &c. . ii. 7, &c.]—Explicetur articulus Symboli. Qui est hujus loci maximè proprius, de quo, p. 38, et seqq. Eodem die ad Missam majorem.

, &c. i. 1, &c.]—Quoniam hic locus dum agitur de æterna Christi Domini generatione adducitur, p. 35, hinc parochus petet hujus loci expositionem.

.]—Hic exponatur mysterium Incarnationis prout habetur, p. 36, et seqq.

.]—Quomodo hîc unigenitus sit etiam patre noster, vide p. 337.

, &c. . ii. 35, &c.]—Ex hac Simeonis prædictione ansam sumere poterit parochus explicandi, cur Deus fideles jam baptizatos, quos filios habet carissimos, non eximat ab incommodis vitæ hujus, qua de re agitur, p. 129, et quò confugiendum tunc sit, de quo p 318, et seq.

, &c.]—De privata et pub lica oratione habes, p. 330. Quomodo ad orationem, et jejunium et eleemosyna jungenda sint, p. 331, et quomodo ista tria conducant ad satisfactionem peccatorum, p. 332, et seqq. et. 204.

, &c. ii. 21, &c.]—Quoniam circumcisioni successit Baptismus, hîc in genere dici poterit de vi, et efficientia Sacramentorum novæ legis supra antiquæ legis Sacramenta, ut habetur, p. 111.

, &c.]—Quàm convenienter hoc nomen inditum fuerit Christo Domino, et quare, vide p. 33.

Observandum hic etiam est pueris nunc in baptismo, et olim in circumcisione nomen esse imponendum: cujus rei quænam sit ratio, et quale nomen puero imponi debeat, habes, p. 136. Denique cum impositio nominis sit una ex ceræmoniis in baptismo usitatis, hide baptismi ceramoniis et ritibus apta concio haberi poterit, p. 133, et seqq.

, &c. ii. 2, &c.]—Quoniam non ineptè per hanc stellam philosophica de Deo scientia potest intelligi, sicut per responsum sacerdotum fidei lumen, non malé hic adaptari poterunt quæ de differentia sapientiæ Christianæ à Philosophica notitia habentur, p. 23.

, &c. . ii. 11, &c.]—Hic de adoratione Dei, quæ dicitur, et simul de veneratione Sanctorum, quæ  nominatur. Vide in expositione Decalogi p. 237, et 245, usque ad secundum præceptum. Hic agi etiam potest de Eucharistiæ veneratione et adoratione. Nam si eundem Christum, quem Magi adorave. runt præsentem in Eucharistia agnoscimus, et confitemur; ut disertis verbis probatur, p. 159, et seqq. si pii esse volumus, cur non æque ac Magi eum adorabimus? Vide p. 146, et seqq.

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 known of the higher classes of organised beings. The observation that each of these creatures was distinctly differentiated was no more than the differences of other species would lead us to anticipate. The several varieties must of necessity have their own habitats, and their own surroundings, if they were subject to the same laws of life as other animals and vegetables; and each must fulfil its own purpose in the economy of Nature. In the progress of this investigation, it was found that some of these minute organisms were traceable as parasites in other living beings; and the strong presumption was that they were associated with certain morbid states. It further became evident that this development was not restricted by the action of chemical laws, but that the processes of putrefaction and fermentation might be superseded by morbid processes which have hitherto, at all events, refused to be classed under chemical or physical laws. One additional step led to the conclusion that, in each instance, the special organism was of a different kind. It would be somewhat rash to assert that all of these facts have yet been brought into the domain of laws of Nature. But if we may trust some of the most careful observers, we must admit that certain morbid states (e.g., splenic fever) are accompanied of necessity by the development of a specific bacillus (e.g., the bacillus anthracis), and that this

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 tione dierum festorum, lege, p. 267, et seqq.

, &c.]—De officio liberorù erga parentes, vide p. 271, et seqq.

, &c. , ii. 1, &c.]—De Sacramento Matrimonii, vide p. 225, et seqq.

.]—Hæc conversio aquæ in vinum valet plurimùm ad confirmandos rudiores in fide Transsubstantiationis, quæ fit in augustissimo Altaris Sacramento de qua vide p. 161, et seqq.

viii. 2, 3, &c.]—Per lepram hæresim significari dicunt Patres. Qui verò sunt censendi hæretici, et qui à castris Ecclesiæ, ut olim leprosi ejicendi, habetur, p. 70, et seqq.

.]—De honore Sacerdotibus Domini, et Ecclesiæ præfcctis exhibendo, vide P. 275.

, &c.]—Longè excellentiorem virtutem nostris Sacerdotibus tributam docet Chrysostomus lib. 3, de Sacerd. quàm Mosaicis, quòd illi oblatos sibi leprosos non mundarent; sed mundatos tantùm esse declararent; nostri verò hominem peccati leprâ maculatum, dum absolutionis. beneficium rite præparato impendunt, verè emundant, et perfecte sanitati restituunt. Hîc de potestate clavium Sacerdotibus concessà, ut habetur, p. 82, et sequentibus.

. viii. 23.]—Inter multa, quæ Ecclesiam repræsentant, est navicula illa seu arca Noe, de qua, p. 74. Hic ergo de Ecclesia Catholica, et notis, quibus internoscitur, parochus agere poterit: prout habetur, p. 73, seqq.

.]—Quoniam nullum est tempus, in quo ita hominum vita, quam in propinquo animæ exitu, periclitetur; ideo parochus ex hoc loco hortari poterit suos subditos ut cùm mortis dies instabit, ad Deum maximè recurrant, et extremæ unctionis Sacramentum accipiant, de quo, p. 206, et sequentibus.

]—Quomodo creaturæ omnes eum, quem à Deo ab initio acceperunt, cursum teneant homine dempto, vide p. 350.

, &c. . xiii. 25, &c.]—In Ecclesià duo sunt hominum genera, boni, qui tritici nomine designantur; improbi nomine zizaniorum, vide p. 72, et seqq. Vel per zizania intelliguntur odia, atque rixæ, quas pater dissentionis Diabolus seminare conatur in agro filiorum pacis, cujus morbi remedium habes, p. 281, 285, et 286.

]—De odio dæmonum in nos, et ad tentandum audacia et perversitate, vide p. 374; et ut omnis mali culpæ auctor, mali verò pænæ sit exactor, vide p. 378.

. xiii. 31, &c.]—Quoniam juxta Doctores per granum sinapis fides intelligitur; hic tractanda sunt, quæ de ejus necessitate habentur, p. 24, et quomodo servanda sint ea quæ fide credenda proponuntur, p. 26, et 27, et ejus excellentia et quantum differat Christiana de Deo sapientia ct philosophica divinarum rerum notitia, p. 23.

.]-Fidcm augeri posse traditur, p. 329.

.]—Hanc mulierem Ecclesiam interpretantur, quæ in doctrina fidei aut morum (per fermentum designata) errare non posse traditur, p. 77.

.]—Hic de communione Sanctorum et meritorum participatione explicari possunt, quæ, sunt, p. 79, et seq.

. XX. 1, &c.]—Hic paterfamilias est Deus, qui cur pater dicatur, habes, p. 25, et 26. 332, et 333.

.]—Denarii nomine coelestis beatitudo designatur, quam hic paterfamilias alacriter et sinceré in vinea sua, id est, in cultura mandatorum divinorum laborantibus præstat. De hoc vitæ æternæ denario lege quæ diffuse traduntur, p. 92, et seq

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 et 241, 343, et seqq. Hujus verò beatitudinis consequendæ certam viam, ac rationem habes, p. 346, et seqq. Item. exhortatio ad colendam hanc vineam mandatorum illustris habetur, p. 238, et seqq.

, &c.]—In cœlo tamen varietas est meroedis, et gloriæ, pro ratione laboris et affectus, quo quis operatur, p. 88, et 99.

, &c. . viii. 5. &c.]—Semen hoc in terram sparsum est verbum Dei, exponente Domino, de quo, vide p. 362, et quomodo sit audiendum, vide præfet. VENIT DIABOLUS, &c.]-De dæmonis conatu, et impugnatione habes, p. 376, et seqq.

, &C.]—Quantùm divitiæ et effræenes rerum temporalium cupiditates impediant hujus divini seminis fructum habes, p. 350, et seq.

. xviii. 32, &c.]—Ut Christi milites ejus crucem tamquam vexillum sui ducis contuentes, ad arma pœnitentiæ sumenda exstimulentur, ideo hoc Evangelium ineunte quadragesimâ legitur, quod passionis Dominicæ summam complecitur, quo loco non importunè parochus exponet, quæ de Passione Domini fusè traduntur, p. 43, et seqq. Vel si in aliud tempus commodius differre malit hoc argumentum; hodie alteram Evangelii partem pertractabit, ut sequitur.

.]—Hic cæcus genus humanum denotabat, de cujus post peccatum statu misero, vide p. 350.

.]—Hic quomodo Deum aliter oremus ac Sanctos ex hac formula demonstrabis, ut habes, p. 327. Porrò si angustiis, aut tribulationibus premimur, aut re aliqua indigemus, ad Dominum cum hoc cæco nobis recurrendem est, precibusque sollicitandus Deus, ut nobis adsit. Vide de necessitate et utilitate orationis, p. 317.

.]—Hîc causas, ob quas clementissimus Deus vult à nobis rogari, etiam si sciat quibus rebus indigeamus, ex p. 318, et 319, proferes.

. &c. vi. 16, &c.]—Cùm quadragesimæ jejunium eo nomine sit institutum, ut totius anni peccata hac quasi solemni mulctà redimeremus, hodiè parochus excitare fidelem populum debebit ad poenitentiam amplectendam, de cujus necessitate scribit, p. 81, et 180, docere quibus gradibus ad poenitentiam licet ascendere, p. 179, et quibus operum generibus pro peccatis satisfacere possimus, p. 204, et seqq.

]—Vide adversus eos qui opes congerere undequaque studeant, p. 292. 294, et seq.

]—Quoniam parochi frequenter fidelem populù ad eleemosinas pauperibus erogandas excitare debent: hic hoc studiosè præstabunt ex his quæ habentur, p. 314, 315, et seq. et 372.

, &c. iv. 11, &c.]—Cùm sit tentatio vita hominis super terram, ut dicit Job, vii. hic de tentatione agendum, de generibus tentationum, ad quid permittantur homines tentari, quibus armis tentationibus resistendum, et cætera hujusmodi, quæ habentur, p. 375, et seqq.

.]—De pane spiritali de quo hic agit Christus Dominus, vide p. 362, et seq.

, &c.]—De Angelorum custodia erga homines, p. 333, et 334.

.]—De adoratione Dei quæ fide, spe et charitate, perficitur, vide p. 244.

, &c. xvii. 1, &c.]—Hic afferri possunt ea, quæ de loco et tempore, quo homines ad divina contemplanda aptiores sunt, habentur, p. 243.

.]—Hic tractari possunt, quæ de summa eorum dignitate, qui Deo obediunt, habentur, p. 358. Vel de intimis hominum sanctorum gaudiis, p. 363. Poterunt etiam Parochi de duodecimo articulo hic habere sermonem, de quo, p. 92, 93.

, &c.]—Hic de æterna filii generatione latissimus sese offert dicendi campus, de qua, p. 35,

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 et seq. vel secundum aliarum Ecclesiarum ritum.

XV. 22, &c.]—Hic typum habes perfectæ orationis quantum spectat ad duas conditiones, quæ in oratione maximê desiderantur, fidem videlicet, et perseverantiam, de quibus, p. 329, et seqq.

, &c.]—Hujus mulieris exemplo Parentes monentur diligentem liberorum curam gerere; de qua, p. 278.

, &c.]—Si Apostoli in hac vita degentes, adhuc pro se soliciti pro Chananeâ interpellant, et exaudiuntur, et in cælo mutire non audebunt, inquit D. Hieron, contra Vigilantium. Hic de intercessione, Sanctorum, prout habetur p. 246, seqq.

xi. 14., &c.]—Dæmonis proprium est eum, quem possidet, reddere mutum, id est, á confessione peccati revocare. Sed tamen non est alia ratio ejeciendi Dæmonis, quam ut linguam solvas ad detegendum coram Sacerdote peccatum, vide quæ de Confessione habentur, p. 189, et seqq.

.]—Ecclesia est Christi regnum, ut habetur, p. 346. Id autem, ut in seipsum non sit divisum, unum esse necesse est, unde hic de unitate Ecclesiæ agendum est, ex p. 74, et seq.

]—De relabentium in peccati gravitatem, p. 47. Et quid post confessionem agendum, p. 204, et seq.

.]—Hic locus p. 374, inducitur ad probandum non unum tantum da monem, sed plures etiam interdum hominem tentare; patet autem ex hoc loco dæmonem acrius eos tantare, qui ab eo defecerunt, ut est p. 375, et seqq.

.]—Glorificatione B. Mariæ Virginis hoc Evangelium concluditur; de qua habes, p. 39, 40, 326.

&c. vi. 5. &c.]—Hic aptè explicari poterit illa petitio Dominica orationis; "Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis," p. 357, et seqq.

Notandum pretereà quòd panis iste vim etiam habebat sedandi sitim, ut tenent doctores. Ita et panis Eucharistia laicis pro calice est. Lege de Communione sub una specie, p. 171, 172.

.]—Quomodo Deus hominem tentet, vide p. 376, et seq.

.]—Christus non distribuit, sed dedit Apostolis, et illi distribuerunt turbæ, Matth., xiv. 19. Sic à mundi initio per Patriarchas et Prophetas, et postea per Apostolos eorumque successores Deus verbum Dei et sacramenta subministrat, ut habetur p. 13, 14, et 108. Christus tamen est qui hæc omnia præcipuè efficit, p. 108.

.]—De gratiarum actione, p. 326.

, viii. 46, &c.]—Innocentia Christi in hodierno Evangelio convenienter profertur in medium, ut in promtu sit nobis causa Dominica Passionis quam hodie representare incipit Ecclesia, nimirum non propria illius delicta, sed nostra, De causis Passionis Christi habes, p. 47.

.]—Mendacio cavere docemur de quo multa p. 301, et seqq.

, &c.]—De verbo Dei audiendo, p. 16, et 362.

&c.]—Ex hoc loco Parochus ansam poterit arripere ad excitandos suos Fideles ad injurias condonandas, qua de re multa habentur, p. 364, et seqq.

.]—Christus'sæpe, et à multis graviter inhonoratur, sed ab iis maximè qui ejus verbum vel malè interpretando, vel ad vana convertendo polluunt, de quo, p. 262.

.]—Ex hoc loco perspici potest, et tempus et genus mortis à Christo delectum fuisse, qua de re, p. 43, et seqq.

Evangelium ut in prima Dominica Advents, de quo ibid. Caeterum quoniam ad Eucharistiam percipiendam ex præcepto Ecclesiæ eo tempore omnes discretione præditi obligantur, ideo ex his Evangelii verbis "Ecce Rex tuus venit tibi man suetus," ad ejus sumptionem Fideles hortari poterit parochus ex his quæ habentur, p. 147, 148, 163, et deinceps;

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 et quoniam parentes utplurimum negligentissimi sunt ad liberos suos ad Eucharistiæ perceptionem præsentandos, idco eis maximè Parochus inculcabit, quæ de atate ad quam pueri ad eam percipiendam tenentur, et habentur, p. 171.

.]—Hoc die quoniam solemnis de mysterio Passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi concio haberi solet; ideo præterea, quæ in expositione art. 4. Symboli habentur, p. 43, et seqq. hæc insuper hoc die tractari posse videntur. De singulari amore, quo Deus genus humanum prosecutus est, cum illud morte unigeniti filii sui redimere voluerit, de quo, p. 336. De primi parentis lapsu et miseriis, quæ illum consecutæ sunt, de quibus, p. 32, 250, et seqq. quomodo ex passione Christi omnis remissio peccatorum emanarit, de quo, p. 84, et 368, et proinde omnia Sacramenta ex hac Christi passione virtutem acceperunt, ut est, p. 110, et 111. De sacrificio Christi tam cruento quám incruento ex p. 175. De satisfactione et merito Christi, de quo, p. 202, et 203. Denique quomodo nulli unquam patuit, sed nec patere quidem potest aditus ad regnum cælorum sine hac de redemptionis humanæ per Christum fide, ut est, p. 31, idque esse summam et cardinem totius Christianæ religionis, scire Jesum Christum, et hunc crucifixum, ut habetur, p. 16.

, &c., xvi. 6. &c.]—De resurrectione Domini exponetur artic. Symboli Apostolici,"Tertià die resurrexit à mortuis," p. 50.

, xxiv. 13, &c.]—Quoniam fieri vix potuit ut Parochus omnia, uæ ad resurrectionem Christi pertinent pridiè explicuerit, ideo hoc die poterit ea quæ prætermisit, ex eo loco repetere.

.]—Hic locus est proprius causas exponendi ob quas necesse fuit Christum resurgere, quæ habentur, p. 55, et exemplo Christi fideles hortandi ut omni studio incumbant ut cælesti regno potiantur; quod habetur p. 343, et de commodis tribulationis, p. 378, et seq.

.]—Hic locus pro prius est ad probandum utramque Eucharistiæ speciem laicis necessarió non exhibendam, de quo multa, p. 171, et seq.

xxiv. 36, &c.]—Hic de quatuor dotibus corporis gloriosi agi potest, ut habetur, p. 90, et seq.

.]—Quoniam regnum Dei, teste Apostolo, pax est et gaudium in Spiritu Sancto: Hic quale sit regnum Christi in pios tractari potest, ut habetur, p. 346.

]—Quomodo pænitentiæ prædicatio à Christo Apostolis injuncta sit ex hoc ipso loco probatur p. 81. Unde potes tam expositione articuli de remissione peccatorum, quam ex his quæ de Sacramento pænitentiæ hîc habentur, longissimam habere concionem.

XX. 19, &c.]—Christi resurrectio nostræ est resurrectionis exemplar, quain maxime stabilire necesse fuit, ut pariter nostra stabiliretur quibus autem tum Scripturis, tum rationibus nostra stabiliatur resurrectio, vide p. 55, 85, et scqq. "Una sabbatorum" autem quid sit vide, p. 265.

. XX. 23, &c.]—De potestate clavium sacerdotibus concessa, p. 82, et seq. et 350.

&c.]—Qualia futura sunt corpora post resurrectionem, et cur Christus et martyres cicatrices retinebunt, habes, p. 89, et seqq.

, x. 11, &c.]—Pastorum nomine comprehenduntur non solùm Episcopi et animarum rectores, sed etiam Reges, Magistratus, Parentes, et Magistri. Quid veró Pastores ejusmodí ovibus debeant, et quid vicissim oves Pastoribus, habes p. 273, et seq.

.]—Quis sit iste mercenarius et non pastor, vide p. 213, et seq.

.]—Hic de unitate Ecclesiæ, de qua p. 74,

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 et seqq. Unoque universali Ecclesiæ Pastore D. Petro, et D. Petri successore Rom. Pontifice, de quo p. 74, et seq. et 222, et 223.

. xvi. 16, &c.]—Efficax consolationis genus, dum temporarius mæror pro Christo susceptus, æternis gaudiis compensatur. Vide quæ de vita æterna habentur, p. 92, et seqq.

.]—Quare perversi minus, pii verò acrius, á dæmonibus infestentur, et proinde illi gaudeant, ísti veró tristentur, vide p. 375.

, &c.]—Spe futurorum bonorum quomodo alacri et constanti animo adversa omnia toleraro debeamus, vide, p. 91, et seqq. et cur Deus sinat affligi bonos, p. 378, et seq.

XVI. 7. &c.]—De Spiritu Sancto, deque admirandis ejus effectibus, et donis habes, p. 66, 67, et seqq.

, &c.]—Spiritus Sancti proprium munus est, corda et compunctionem movere, et peccantem intrinsecus arguere. Quæ autem contritio vera sit, quasque res ea habere debeat, p. 182, et seqq. Huic etiam referri possunt ea quæ, de peccatis quæ remitti non possunt, habentur, p. 183.

xvi. 23, &c.]—De oratione, et ejus adjunctis hic proprius est decendi locus, de qua, p. 317, et seq.

&c.]—Hic proprié de modo quo Deum per Christum orare debemus, de quo, p. 329, et seqq. Hic etiam locus, p. 331, adducitur ad probandum in nomine Christi orandum esse.

xvi. 19, &c.]—Hoc in loco artic. Symb. Apostolici qui de Ascensione est, explicabitur, p. 57, et seqq.

. XV. 26, &c.]—Hic de processione Spiritus Sancti a Patre et Filio, ex p. 68, et seqq.

xvi. 2, &c.]—Hic præceptum Decalogi "Non occides," exponi poterit, de quo, p. 279, et seqq.

&c.]—De omnibus adversis et calamitatibus hujus vitæ idem judicandum est quod he his, quæ Christi causa patimur, nempe eas esse magnum Dei in nos benevolentiæ signum, ut habetur, p. 336.

xiv. 23, &c.]—Spiritus Sanctus ideo credentibus datur, ut sermonem Dei qui Decalogo comprehenditur, servare possint, ad quam rem, ut promptiores sint, adferat parochus quæ habentur initio explicationis Decalogi, p. 237, et seqq. vel quoniam, p. 240, hic locus adducitur ad probandum Dei mandata non esse impossibilia, ideo de hac re aget ex, p. 239

Vel hodié exponet quæ traduntur de Confirmationis Sacramento, p. 137, et seq. Quandoquidem tali die Apostolos à Spiritu Sancto confirmatos fuisse docent Patres.

iii. 16.]—Hic locus proprius est ad ea populo exponenda, quæ de eximia charitate cælestis Patris in genus humanum, in creatione, et gubernatione demonstrata; sed multo magis in Redemptione habentur, p. 336, et seq.

]—Hic quomodo fides in Christum omnibus hominibus ab omni ævo necessaria fuerit, docendum est ex, p. 31, et seq.

.]—De verbo "credere" habes, p. 22, quæ hic accommodare poteris: ex qua etíam dicendi forma Filium Dei vere Deum esse demonstrabis, ex p. 67.

.]—Quomodo Dei filius sit unigeni tus poteris declarare ex his, quæ habentur, p. 31, et contra qua ratione hic unigeni tus fratres habeat, p. 337, et 338.

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x. 1, &c.]—Hic locus proprius est ad ea explicanda, quæ de ligitima ordinatione ministrorum Ecclesiæ habentur, p. 212, et seqq. de ligitimo ministro Sacramenti ordinis, p. 223.

]—De obedientia et honore, qui debetur Episcopis et sacerdotibus agitur, p. 275, et seq.

.]—Hæreticorum ministros non esse sequendos, vide p. 14, qui autem eos sequuntur, non oves sed hædi sunt, p. 376.

. XXviii. 18, &c.]—Hic explicanda sunt quæ de regno Christi in pios, et ratione quâ regnat in suis Fidelibus, habentur, p. 346, et seqq. de regno eitam gloriæ ejusdem, p. 347, item de potestate ipsius in Sacramentis tam instituendis quam conferendis, p. 108, et de potestate item clavium ejusdem, qua remittuntur peccata, p. 82, et seqq.

.]—Hic locus adducitur ad probandum, quo tempore baptismus obligare cæperit, p. 118, et ideò necessitate ejusdem, et præsertim in infantibus ea proferri possunt quæ habentur, p. 122, et deinceps.

.]—Hic de materia et forma baptismi, quæ sunt, p. 114, 115, 116, et seq. accurate agendum est. Hic etiam de Sanctissimæ et gloriosissimæ Trinitatis mysterio poterunt agere Parochi, de quo p. 26, et seqq. Docebunt autem præsertim vulgus imperitum Sanctissimam Trinitatem pingi et formari non posse, atque adeo si quando pingatur, illam picturam proprietates quasdam illius exprimere, ut habetur, p. 249, et seqq.

.]—Hic de necessitate, et possibilitate servandæ legis divinæ proferentur, quæ habentur, p. 239, et seqq.

, &c. . vi. 36, &c.]—De hoc Evangelio in Dominica, 4. juxta aliarum Ecclesiarum morem.

]—Hic de communicandis cum proximis hujus vitæ subsidiis produci possunt quæ habentur, p. 361, et seq. vel de eleemosynis, p. 328, 332.

]—De hypocritis quorum orationes Dominus rejicit, habes, p. 331. Item secundum aliquos.

&c. , iii. 3, &c.]—Hic de necessitate baptismi, qui in nomine Sanctissima Trinitatis confertur, de ejus effectibus, et in universum quicquid de eo habetur, p. 112, et seq. explicabit.

, &c. vi. 56, &c.]—De Eucharistiæ Sacramento, p. 146, et seq.

, &c. xvi. 1, &c.]—Cœnæ nomine, quæ sub finem dici sumitur, cœlestis gloria nobis significatur, quam hic paterfamilias in ipsa vite clausula beatis donabit. In hoc argumentum, vide quæ ponantur, p. 94, et seq. et 353. Vel cœnæ nomine cum Paulo, 1 Cor. ii. intelligitur Sacrosanctum Christi corpus in Sacramento altaris: de que vide, ut supra, p. 146, et seq.

.]—Quoniam omnes hæ excusationes ex mala concupiscentia proveniunt, ideo hic adversus concupiscentias pràvas agendum erit, ex p. 309, et seq. Simulque miseria nostra ob oculos ponenda, qui ea respuimus, quæ salutaria nobis sunt, rebus autem perniciosis nos addicimus, ut hi fecerunt, p. 350, et seq.

.]—Vide in superbos, et ambitiosos, qui per hunc designantur, quæ habentur, p. 299, et seq.

.]—Vide in avaros, p. 313, et seq.

]—Hic detestanda libido, et commendanda continentia et castitas, quæ aditum nobis ad cælorum regnum facilem præbet, vide p. 288, et seq. Vel secundùm alios.

, &c. xvi. 1, &c.]—De varietate in vestibus fugienda, vide quæ habentur, p. 290, et 291. Et quomodo necessariis tantum rebus ad victum et vestitum pertinentibus contenti esse debeamus, p. 360.

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 .]—Ecce quæ pæna maneat improbos, qui morte præoccupati sceleribus pleni decedunt, de qua, p. 64, et 65.

.]—Inter Angelorum officia hoc non postremum est, vide p. 333, et seq.

.]—De recaptaculis animarum post mortem habes, p. 51, et seq.

, &c. xv. 7, &c.]—Inter cætera, quæ ad pœnitentiam, agendam peccatorem exstimulare debent, est ista cælitum lætitia, quâ perfruuntur ob peccatoris conversionem, Plura habes in hanc sententiam, p. 176, et 247, vel HOMO QUIDAM FECIT ut in Dominica præcedenti.

, &c. v. 1, &c.]—Vide exhortationem ad audiendum diligenter verbum Dei, p. 14, et in præfat. Et quomodo pro captu cujusque tradenda sit doctrina Evangelii, ibidem infra; idque præsertim diebus festis audiendum, p. 263.

&c.]—Petri navem non alterius ex Apostolis ingressus est Christus ut hoc suo facto insinuaret Petrum cum successoribus caput esse et principem pastorum Ecclesiæ: de hac tu, vide p. 74, et seq. et 222.

]—Qui ad sacram synaxin accedunt, in Petri exemplo et centurionis, Matth. viii. agnoscsnt esse se tanti hospitis præsentià indignissimos: vide quæ de præparatione Eucharistia traduntur, p. 167, et seq. vel secundùm aliarum Ecclesiarum ritum.

, &c. vi. 36, &c.]—Ut Christus nobis condonet, prius condouare ipsi debemus iis à quibus læsi fuerimus. Vide explicationem illius petitionis: "Dimitte nobis debita nostra," &c. p. 364, et seq. Vide item de hoc Evang. in festo Trinit.

, &c. . v. 33, &c.]—Hujus loci erit hoc decalogi præceptum exponere, prout habetur, p. 279, et seq.

.]—Hæc verba exponuntur, p. 281, et seq.

, &c.]—Hic'símiliter exponatur hoc præceptum, de quo habetur, p. 286, vel "cum turbæ irruerent in Jesum, ut supra."

, viii. 2, &c.]—Præter ea, quæ notata sunt in Dominica quartâ Quadragesimæ poterit Parochus ea huc proferre, quæ de paterna Dei de hominibus cura habentur, p. 332, et seq.

.]—Hic de imbecillitate hominum, qui nullum opus Deo gratum sine adjumento Dei possunt instituere, agendum est, ut habetur, p. 350, et seq. vel, "Audistis quia dictum est antiquis. Non occides, ut supra."

, &c. vii. 15, &c.]—Hic cavendum præcipitur ab hereticis. Quis verò censendus sit hæreticus habes, p. 73. Quomodo autem hi, cùm in Ecclesia non sint, ab ea puniri possint, p. 73. Quibus autem artibus hi falsi prophetæ utantur ad impia sua dogmata infundenda, habes, P. 14.

, &c.]-De hoc igne infernali, p. 51.

, &c.]—Hæc sententia est veluti methodus brevissima, docens qua ratione ad regnum cœlorum pervenire possimus: quare quicumque cupimus illud adipsci, hanc sententiam præ oculis habere debemus, vide p. 350, et deinceps, ubi hæc tertia petitio, "Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cœlo et in terra," explicatur. Vel "Misereor super turbam," ut in præcedenti Dominica.

xvi. 2, &c.]—De ratione reddenda, cum unusquisque migrat è vita, vide p. 61.

.]—Ideo divites à Deo bonis cumulantur, ut pauperibus ea erogent, p. 363. Hic ad eleemosynas suo poteri

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 exhortari Parochus, prout est, p. 298, 299, et 328. Hic etiam locus pro intercessione Sanctorum facit, de qua, p. 245, et seq. 326, et 327; vel "Attendite à falsis prophetis," ut in præcedenti Dominica, sicque deinceps omnia Evangelia que consequenter in reliquis Dominicis proponuntur, in quibusdam Ecclesiis, in præcedenti Dominica legi consueverunt, quod notare supersedimus.

xix. 41.]—Flevit Christus, ut nos flere doceat. Quomodò verò in pœnitudine erratorum sint adhibendæ lacrymæ, et quam diligcnter procurandæ, habes, p. 186, ubi de contritione agitur.

]—Summa est status nostri miseria nostram miseriam non agnoscere, vide P. 350.

&c.]—Hierusalem in eеxenplum punitur hujus hominis, qui, multis a Deo beneficiis ornatus, male eis in sui perniciem abutitur, vide p. 377.

. xviii. 11, &c.]—Quibus virtutibus oratio debeat esse comitata, ut Deo placeat, et ab co exaudiatur, vide p. 327, et seq.

]—Hoc veri poenitentis exemplum inter alia proponitur, p. 327. Quare cum istius tum aliorum exemplo, qui habentur ibidem et p. 184, 185, ad veram pœnitentiam Parochi fidcles excitabunt. Est præterea excmplum eorum, qui, cùm peccatores sint, Deum orant et exaudiuntur, p. 322. Denique quanta humilitate ad Deum precaturi accedere debeamus hic demonstratur, p. 328.

.]—Christi humilitatis exemplum maximum pondus habet ad nostram superbiam deprimendam, p. 43.

vii. 32, &c.]—Istorum exemplo, qui Christum pro muto et surdo ad eum adducto, ut sanaretur, interpellant, monemur pro aliis orare. Quomodo vero id faciendum et pro quibus orandum habes, p. 324, et seq.

.]—Christi exemplo pueris in aurcs, oculi, pectus, humeri signo crucis baptismo, recte insigniuntur. Vide de his et alus baptismi cæremoniis, et earum significatione, p. 133, et seq.

, &c.]—Cùm Dcus sit ubique, cur potius in cœlum quàm aliò oculus convertamus, et cur in cælis esse dicatur, p. 339. Præterea quoniam sacræ literæ nos surdos et cæcos, et omnibus membris captos'sæpe appellant: ut habetur, p. 366, hic de malis quæ peccatum invehit, ut ibidem habetur, disserere Parochus commodè poterit.

, &c. . x. 37, &c.]—In hanc sententiam populo proponantur, quæ habentur initio explicationis Decalogi, p. 237, usque ad secundum præceptum, vel quia hoc Evangelium concurrit cum Dominica decima-septima, posteriorem hujus Evangelii partem priori prætermissa exponet.

, &c.]—Hominis hujus ita miserabiliter à latronibus vulnerati nomine, Doctores intelligunt humanam naturam post Adæ lapsum, quæ, quot, qualia, et quanta, vulnera acceperit, habes, p. 31, 32, et 350, et seq. 358, et seqq. et 382, et seq. sæpeque alibi.

&c.]—Hic de Sacramentis agat Parochus, quæ à nostro Samaritano, id est à Christo instituta sunt, tamquam remedia contra vulnera humanæ naturæ, per Adæ lapsum inflicta, ut habetur, p. 103, 104.

.]—Nota genus humanum et Ecclesiam uni homini à Christo commissam, qua de re vidc, p. 74, et seq.

.]—Ex hoc loco quis sit proximus explicatur, p. 302.

xvii. 13, &c.]—De nomine Jesu, vide p. 33.

&c.]—Vide quæ in hanc sententiam dicta sunt Dominica secunda post Epiphaniam: vide præterea, p. 191, ubi nominatim hic locus adducitur. Quomodo item beneficio contritionis peccata remittantur, ex hoc loco probatur, p. 188, et 189. Quæ tamen confessionem requirit, ut habetur, p. 184, et 190.

, &c. vi. 25, &c.]—Quantum immoderata solicitudo congerendarum opum,

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 cæteræque cupiditates animæ saluti obsint, vide p. 312, et seq. et hujus morbi remedium habes, p. 314, et seq.

.]—Etiamsi Deus sciat desideria nostra et indigentiam, cur ei preces porrigamus, p. 320.

, &c.]—De iis quæ petenda sunt et quo ordine, habentur, p. 323, et seq. et 340, et seq. Porro hic commodé secunda petitio Doininicæ orationis tota explicabitur, ut habetur, p. 343, et seq.

, &c.]—Quatenus temporalia petenda, p. 359, et 360.

vii. 15.]—Si hic mortuus et quidam alii sint revocati ad vitam, quomodo intelligendum quod Christus primus omnium resurrexerit, vide p. 53. Hic tractari poterit articulus Symboli Apostolici penult. de carnis resurrectione p. 85, et seq.

xiv. 3, &c.]—De Sanctificatione dieruin festoruin, et á quibus tunc abstinendum, quidve agendum sit, habes, p. 268, et seq.

, &C.]—Hic locus est cohortandi Christianos omnes, ne alii aliis se præferant, ut est, p. 338, neve ambitiosi sint honorumque cupidiores, ut est, p. 41.

. xxii. 37, &c.]—Vide Evangelium Dominica: xii. ut suprá.

, &c.]—Christus quomodo sit David filius, vide p. 40. Quomodo item non sit filius David ratione Divinitatis, habes, p. 36.

ix. 2, &c.]—Ecce quantum fide alicna moveatur Deus ad aliquod donum alteri non modo non petenti, sed ne cogitanti quidem impertiendum. Hinc fit ut in baptismo infantes regenerationis fiant participes, non quia mentis suæ assentione credant, sed quia susccptorum, vel parentum, (si fideles fuerint) sin minus, Ecclesiae Catholicæ (ut ait Augustinus) fide muniantur, p. 124, et de patrinis, p. 120, et seq.

&c.]—Christum ut hominem primum omnium potestatem remittcndorum peccatorum habuisse ex hoc loco probatur, p. 83. Porro dum Sacerdos, jurisdictionem habens vel ordinariam vel delegatam, rite pænitenti peccata remittit, non minus absolvitur, quàm paralyticus, quantum est ex parte Sacram. De forma absolutionis habes, p. 181, et 182.

&c.]—De blasphemia habetur, p. 261, et de juramento, p. 251, et seq.

xxii. 2, &c.]—Quibus de causis vir et mulier conjungi debeant, vide p. 229, et quæ sponsæ magis sint quærendæ, p. 230, et de mutuis viri et mulieris officiis, p. 233, et seq. et quod Deum orandi causà certis temporibus à matrimonii officio abstinere debeant, p. 236. Item de tribus matrimonii bonis; p. 233.

, &c.]—De contumelia, detractione, murmuratione, cæterisquæ vitiis quibus proximus læditur, vide p. 303, et seq.

&c.]—Vestem hanc nuptialem vestis candida, vel sudariolum quod baptizatis datur, designat, de quo p. 135.

, &c.]—De sententia et pæna damnatorum, p. 64.

. iv. 46, &c.]—Unde tot miseria et adversitates, et qua quotque illa sint, p. 358. Quò in malis et rebus adversis confugiendum, p. 375, et 380. Hic exponi poterit ultima petitio Dominicæ orationis: "Sed libera nos à malo," p. 381.

xviii. 28, &c.]—Restitutio pænitenti est necessaria, antequam absolvatur, quia "non dimittitur peccatum, nisi restituatur ablatum," ut inquit Augustinus: vide de restitutione, p. 294, et 296. Item de furto, rapina, usuris et aliis illicitis rerum usurpationibus, p. 294, et seq.

, &c.]—Hic expona-

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 tur petitio illa orationis Dominicæ: "Dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus," &c. p. 364, et seq.

xxii. 16, &c.]—Genus assentationis pessimum, quæ ad proximi calamitatem et perniciem adhibetur. De adulatione habes p. 304, et 305. "Quia verax es," &c. De mendacio vide, p. 303, et seq. ubi notatur hoc ipsum testimonium ex hoc Evangelio decerptum.

, &c.]—Vide quæ debentur principibus et superioribus in potestate constitutis, p. 276.

. ix. 18, &c.]—Hic differentia, qua infideles et Christiani à morbis liberari cupiunt, de qua p. 382, et quomodo in morbis ad Deum, non ad præstigiatorum incantationes sit recurrendum, ibid p. 383.

.]—Hic de morte et novissimis, de quibus sæpe ad populum agendum esse præcipitur, p. 65, et 206.

]—Hic de reliquiis Sanctorum, e cultu, et veneratione earum aget Parochus ex, p. 320, et seq.

, &c.]—Hic de ratione juvandi mortuos per sacrificium Missæ et orationes, de qua p. 175, et 326, vel in quibusbam Ecclesiis legitur Evangelium Dominicæ IV. Quadragesimæ, de quo ibidem. Si plures sint Dominicæ inter Pentecosten et Adventum, servetur quod de his in Breviarii rubricis habetur.

xxiv. 15, &c.]—Hic de signis præcedentibus diem judicii agendum est, de quibus, p. 64.

, &c.]—Hic locus ad probandum temporalia à Deo peti posse inducitur, p. 360, unde de hoc argumento Parochi etiam agere poterunt, de quo tum ibidem, tum p. 323, et 324, agitur.

]—Hic de dæmonum potestate poterit agi qui quantum possunt, et quamdiu volunt, homines tentare non possunt, ut habetur, p. 375, et seq.

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EAN BOWER sat in the waiting room of what was called the New Prison. Though she was clad in a warm fur cloak which had just been given her by her uncle and aunt, she felt dreadfully cold. She was miserably anxious and uneasy as to her coming interview with Harry Garlett. How could she ask the man she loved so degrading a question—how make him understand the great importance all those concerned with his defence attached to what she took to be a lying bit of low gossip?

The door of the waiting room opened and Colonel Brackbury walked in.

“Miss Bower? I had the pleasure of meeting you early last May.” And then he shook hands with her warmly. But although he was touched at his visitor's look of deep sadness and at the pallor of her young face, he hardened himself to say that which he knew must be said.

“I have stretched a great point in assenting to your wish for what practically amounts to a private interview with Henry Garlett. I must ask you to give me your solemn word of honour that you will not hand him, or try to convey to him, anything surreptitiously. Also that you will not make the slightest attempt to approach him.”

“To approach him?” echoed Jean uncertainly.

“There will be a table between Mr. Garlett and yourself. You must not stretch across it and try to shake hands with him, for instance.”

“I quite understand, and I promise to do what you ask.”

“Some time ago a lady was allowed to see her husband, who, like Mr. Garlett, was as yet untried. Although a warder was present at the interview she managed, unseen by the warder, to roll along the floor toward her husband a small ball containing a dose of prussic acid.”

He looked at her significantly, but Jean made no comment. It was to her as if she was living through some awful nightmare.

“I understand that you desire to see Henry Garlett with reference to some matter concerning his defence?”

She answered in a strangled tone: “But for that I should not have asked to see him.”

“I should like you to know,” he said kindly, “that we are doing everything we can to make Mr. Garlett comfortable. In our country a man is accounted absolutely innocent until he is adjudged guilty. Apart from the irksomeness of the confinement, and the not being able to see his friends freely, Mr. Garlett is leading much the same life as he would lead outside, were he, what of course he is not, a recluse. I am taking special pains to see that he has good and nourishing food.”

And then, rather to his surprise, for he really knew very little about human nature, Jean Bower began to cry.

“Come, come,” he said dismayed, “this won't do! You must do your best to hearten him up, you know.”

“I will,” she whispered, “I will indeed.” And then she added a pathetic word. “I didn't think you would be so kind.”

“I'm not kind,” he exclaimed testily. “I'm only doing my duty. There! That's right”—for she was trying to smile.

And then they started walking down what seemed to the girl interminable cold, clean, bare passages. But at last they passed through a baize door into what had once been the Governor's official residence before the pleasant villa which the Brackburys occupied had been built, and where were now situated the prison offices.

The Governor opened the door of a large room and courteously stood aside to allow her to pass in. And then suddenly Jean, through a mist of blinding tears, saw Harry Garlett.

He was standing close to the wall behind a long narrow table to her left. For a moment she thought him unchanged; and then she saw that all the healthy, outdoor-man look had gone, and that there was an awful air of strain in the eyes which seemed the only thing alive in his pale set face.

A fire was burning at the other end of the room, but it was very cold, and the atmosphere was full of the musty feeling of an uninhabited room.

Colonel Brackbury brought over a chair for Jean to sit upon. Then, looking from the girl to his prisoner, he said: “And now I will leave you to your talk, Miss Bower. You see that door over there? I shall be close to it, reading my paper, and I shall not be able to hear anything you say unless you raise your voices.”

He walked quickly down the long room, and Jean sat down on the chair he had provided for her.

For a few moments neither of them said anything. She sat, with downcast eyes, trying to repress the tears which would come in spite of her effort to keep them back, while he, poor wretch, gazed at her, all his soul in his sunken eyes remembering.

At last she whispered: “You don't mind my having come? There is a real reason, Harry, or I would not have done it.”

“It was only because I didn't feel I could bear the thought of your coming to such a place that I wrote as I did,” he answered in a low voice. “But, oh, how glad I am to see you now.” Sinking his voice yet further, he whispered, “My darling, darling love.”

She felt as if the sobs she must repress would strangle her utterance. But at last she managed to say: “I have come to ask you to tell me something” She stopped, not knowing how to word her stupid, her unnecessary, her insulting question.

“Yes,” he said eagerly. “Ask me anything in the world, Jean.” And then, as she at last looked up, and he saw the lines that pain and acute suspense had written on her face, he gave a low groan.

“Oh, my God!” he exclaimed, “I can't bear your looking like this, Jean. Mrs. Maclean told me you were quite well.”

She said quietly: “I am quite well. But I lay awake last night thinking of to-day. I'm so afraid”—she waited, then began again—“I'm so dreadfully afraid that you'll be angry—that you won't understand. But the question I've come to ask you is supposed to be so important. And yet? Oh, Harry”

He broke in: “What is it? Come, Jean, you've nothing to be afraid of! You could never make me angry—surely you know that? Whatever you ask me I'll answer truthfully.”

“The other side have a witness,” she murmured in a low strained voice, “who will swear that she saw you at night in the wood which joins part of your garden, with a young woman.”

Instead of the quick, contemptuous denial she had felt so absolutely certain would come, Harry Garlett remained silent for what seemed a long time.

Then he asked: “Who is the witness?”

“Lucy Warren.”

His face had turned a dull red, and, as if not knowing what he was doing, his hands began nervously drumming on the table before him.

“Lucy Warren says the person you were with was a stranger to her,” added Jean slowly, and she saw a look of intense relief flash over his worn face.

“Well, my dear,” he said gently, “what is it you wish to ask me?”

“I want to know,” she said in a trembling voice, “whether what she says is true.”

Before he spoke she knew from the look on his face what his answer, if he spoke the truth, must be. And her heart was contracted, for the first time in her life, with a passion of anguished jealousy.

She looked at him fixedly, and something of what she was feeling showed in her set face and wide-open eyes.

At last he said slowly, as if the words were indeed being dragged out of him:

“Yes, it is quite true that I was there twice at night, and with a woman. But the fact has nothing remotely to do with my forthcoming trial for murder. So you must not ask me who the woman was, Jean. It would be most unfair to drag her into this terrible business of mine. I am sure you will understand that?”

He was looking at her straightly, but speaking with obvious embarrassment and unease.

“Of course I was a fool to do a thing so likely to cause poisonous gossip,” he went on. “But you will believe me when I tell you, before God, that it was not my fault. There are certain things concerning his past life that no plan has the right to reveal, even to his nearest and dearest.” 1

Then more confidently he exclaimed, “Jean? You do understand—you do agree that it would be a shame to bring some one who has nothing to do with the matter at all into such a case as mine will be?”

“Of course I agree to that,” she whispered. “And yet, Harry, and yet?”

She looked at him so imploringly that for the first time he leaned forward, in his eagerness, across the table which separated them, and there came a warning cough from the distant half-open door.

He straightened himself quickly, and over his face she saw flash a painful look of impotent anger.

She said desperately, “You really feel you ought not to tell who was with you that night in the wood—not even to me?”

“Not even to you! I'm not a quixotic fool, my darling. If I thought it would make the slightest difference, of course I would obtain permission from the person in question to reveal her identity. But it would make no difference. It would simply”—he stopped, then choosing his words carefully, he concluded—“draw a hateful, vulgar red herring across the path. I'm afraid that is the object of the people who want me to give you the name of this lady who was with me in the wood.”

As she made no answer to that, he looked at her searchingly.

“I have a right to ask you to believe that I did nothing of which I am now ashamed.”

And then there fell on them a long, long silence. Jean felt overcome, dazed with miserable suspicions. It was as if this man whom she still loved with so absorbing a passion had suddenly revealed himself as being quite other than what she had thought him.

Again there came the sound of a little cough, followed by the rustling of a newspaper being slowly folded up.

Jean did not look round, but she could hear Colonel Brackbury coming toward them.

“Miss Bower, I'm afraid your time is up.”

He looked at his prisoner. “Come round to the end of the table, Garlett. I know Miss Bower would like to shake hands with you.”

He turned away, deliberately, and then Harry Garlett took the poor girl in his arms.

“I swear to you,” he whispered brokenly, “that you have been my only love.”

She raised her face, her lips, to his. “I do know that—God bless you, my own darling!”

And then quickly they fell apart, for with a warning “Hm! Hm!” the Governor, without turning round, exclaimed, “Come along, Miss Bower.”

Jean Bower walked away from the prison gate in a maze of such misery as she had not believed a human being could feel. For the first time in her life she realized what some people learn very soon, and others never learn at all, even if they live to be quite old people. This is that we do not know, with any real knowledge, even those whom we most passionately love and trust.

She had felt so sure, so absolutely certain, that the story of Harry Garlett's meeting a woman in the wood was a malicious lie! And now she knew that it was true, and that there was some strange, painful mystery behind it.

She had seen his pale face flush, and the look of embarrassment, almost of shame, with which he had muttered: “There are certain things about his past no man has the right to reveal—even to his nearest and dearest.”

Her mind hastily surveyed the young women known to her who lived in and about Grendon. There were at least a dozen with whom Harry Garlett was on easy terms of acquaintanceship. But no young people had ever come openly to the Thatched House. Mrs. Garlett did not care for girls, and Agatha Cheale was well known to have no friends, with the exception of Miss Prince.

She walked on, threading her way as if blindly through mean, and shabby streets, and, as she looked furtively to the right and left, she knew that in every one of those little houses there were people who were honestly convinced that Harry Garlett had poisoned his wife for love of her. Small wonder that she hurried on till at last she was in the open country, with not a creature in sight. There, standing on a field path, she stopped and burst into bitter tears.

Crying did her good; it seemed to lift something of the load weighing on her despondent heart. She dried her eyes, vaguely telling herself that she would walk on till she felt too tired to go on—then, turning back, she would in time reach Terriford village.

She had been walking for close on an hour, her nerves sensibly soothed by the fresh air, when all at once she saw in front of her a farmhouse which she knew to be the home of Lucy Warren.

The sight of this place reminded her that her next painful task must be to see Lucy Warren, to try to persuade the girl to tell her that thing which it was so vital she should know, and which yet she knew Harry Garlett hoped she would never know. There are people—perhaps more women than men—who delight in discovering that which those about them do not wish them to know. But Jean Bower was the exact opposite. She had an acute—some people might have said an absurd—sense of honour. It would have seemed to her dishonest to try and worm a secret, even a little secret, out of a child.

She wondered uneasily how she could see Lucy Warren without Miss Prince becoming aware she had done so. And then fortune favoured her, for, as she took the turn which would soon bring her to Terriford, she saw Lucy Warren coming toward her.

The two met in the middle of the field path, and Jean saw an eager look leap to Lucy's eyes. Lucy would have passed any other young lady by with a curt nod, but this particular young lady was not only always kindly, and even friendly, in her manner, but was also the heroine of the most exciting affair which had ever happened in the recollection of the whole neighbourhood.

“Lucy! I am so glad to meet you” and then Jean held out her hand.

The other grasped it warmly. “You do look bad, miss!” she exclaimed, real concern in her voice.

“I feel very tired,” faltered Jean.

“Won't you come to the farm and rest a bit? There's only Mother there.”

“I'd rather stay out here. Oh, Lucy, I know that you have it in your power to help Mr. Garlett!”

With the caution always shown by the more intelligent of her class when face to face with the unknown, Lucy Warren remained silent for a while, gazing, however, fixedly into Jean Bower's troubled face.

“How might that be?” she asked at last.

“The gentleman who is to defend Mr. Garlett says it's all-important to find out who was with him in the wood the night you saw him there,” answered Jean in a trembling voice. “I do implore you to tell me who it was, Lucy?”

“I promised Mother I wouldn't say nothing,” said Lucy hesitatingly.

“But your mother's a good woman! She wouldn't want you to keep anything back that might save an innocent man!” cried Jean wildly.

“I always said to Mother that I should have to say summat—sooner or later.”

Jean stared at the girl in breathless suspense.

“The young lady as met Mr. Garlett in the wood,” said Lucy at length, “was Miss Cheale.”

“Miss Cheale? Are you sure of that, Lucy?”

There was deep disappointment, instinctive relief, and a touch of incredulity in the way in which Jean Bower repeated the name of the young lady who for a year had been an in mate of the Thatched House.

Lucy moved a little closer to Jean Bower.

“Us servants,” she said meaningly, “knows a lot more than we're meant to know. We all knew well enough that Miss Cheale fair doted on Mr. Garlett—though he was always trying not to see it. Why sometimes she'd be talking about him in her sleep!”

Jean Bower's face, from pale became very red. Could this be true? Or was it only an example of the kind of vulgar, dangerous gossip of which she now knew village life to be ever full?

“What I'd like to ask Miss Cheale,” went on Lucy in an excited voice, “and what ought to be asked her, is why she told them lies about them strawberries?”

“Lies?” repeated Jean in an oppressed tone. “I don't understand, Lucy. What lies did Miss Cheale tell?”

“She told your uncle, miss, that Mr. Garlett had given the missus some strawberries that had been left for her by Miss Prince. Well, that was just a lie! Them strawberries were there on a chest of drawers in the corridor outside Mrs. Garlett's room in the early afternoon. I saw them there myself. Then they just vanished off the chest of drawers—long before Mr. Garlett went into Mrs. Garlett's room. I can swear to that! I happens to have a special reason for remembering it, for he said to me, 'Lucy, will you please go in and ask Mrs. Garlett if she can see me now?' And I says, says I, 'No, sir, I don't feel I can do that. The missis is so angry with me about last night.' So I went and got the housemaid to go in—that's why it remained so plain in my mind.”

“You mean,” said Jean slowly, “that the strawberries disappeared early in the afternoon.”

“Ay, that's what I do mean,” said Lucy confidently. “They were there, a good 'elping, not more, on one of them small dishes belonging to the best dessert service.”

“Who do you think gave them to Mrs. Garlett?”

Lucy hesitated. “If it comes to that, the missus may have got them for 'erself.”

“I thought she never went into the passage.”

“She came downstairs in the middle of the night spry enough,” said the girl bitterly. “Besides, there's nothing to prove she got the poison with them strawberries—it's only a idea.”

But Jean was hardly listening, for her mind was full of something very different.

“You are quite sure, Lucy, that it was Miss Cheale who was in the wood with Mr. Garlett?”

“I'm more than sure. I saw 'er quite plain.”

“Then there's nothing more to be said. But I'm bitterly disappointed,” said Jean sadly. “Somehow I had hoped that whoever was in the wood with Mr. Garlett would—” she did not quite know how to frame her meaning—“would, well, provide a clue,” she ended.

Lucy gave an odd glance at Jean. She felt very sorry for Dr. Maclean's niece.

“Miss Cheale was in the village the very day Mr. Garlett was sent for trial,” she muttered.

“That's impossible,” said Jean quickly, “she was ill in London that day. Her evidence had to be read. She couldn't have been anywhere near Grendon.”

“She was at our place—at the Thatched Cottage—early that afternoon, and in an awful state, too! I heard her tell Miss Prince that she knew Mr. Garlett was innocent.”

“You heard her say that?”

“Yes, I did,” went on Lucy excitedly, “and don't you forget that it was Miss Cheale who always saw to Mrs. Garlett's food.”

She had got it out now, that suspicion, that almost certainty, that hope, that had long tormented her.

“But why,” asked Jean in an oppressed, bewildered tone, “should Miss Cheale do such an awful thing?”

She felt as if she was living through one of her terrible nightmares.

“Miss Cheale,” said Lucy firmly, “thought that if she could get Mrs. Garlett out of the way Mr. Garlett maybe would marry her.”

“I can't believe that, Lucy.”

“Anyway, she was terribly upset when she heard that you and him was going to be married. She took on awful! I heard what she said to Miss Prince, though they thought as how I was out, I had come in, unbeknown to them, and heard it all. Again and again she asked: 'But is it true, Mary, or just gossip?' And Miss Prince, she kept on saying: 'It is true, Agatha, only too true; I asked Mrs. Maclean, and she admitted it.' Then she says, 'You must pull yourself together, and call on your pride.'”

“D'you think it would be any good if I went in to Miss Prince and asked her about Miss Cheale?” asked Jean in a hesitating tone. “I mean, couldn't she ask Miss Cheale what she meant by saying that she knew that Mr. Garlett was innocent?”

A look of terror came into Lucy's face.

“Oh, miss, you won't go and do that? It would get me into terrible trouble! They're such friends—she'd never say a word against Miss Cheale, I know she wouldn't! Why, Miss Prince had a letter from her this very morning. That's why I'm here now. Miss Cheale wrote as how the woman who keeps the place where she's living in London can't get any help, and Miss Prince thought my sister might go—just to oblige. Not much! But of course I couldn't but say I'd ask.”

“Can you give me Miss Cheale's address?” asked Jean in a stifled tone.

Lucy began hunting in the narrow pocket of her ulster.

“Not that you'll get anything out of her! She's an artful one—she is!”

She held out a crumpled piece of paper.

Jean Bower gazed down at the piece of paper now in her hand for some time. Lucy was looking at her anxiously, not liking to speak. Had she been wise to confide her great secret, her frightful half-suspicion of the woman she hated, to this young lady?

At last Jean turned round.

“Lucy,” she said, “I'm going to trust you with a secret.”

She spoke with a touch of solemnity which impressed the girl.

“I'm going to London to take this situation offered by”—she looked again at the paper—“Mrs. Lightfoot.”

“You never are!”

“It's my only chance of getting at Miss Cheale—of finding out anything she may know. I don't believe—I can't believe—that she had anything direct to do with the poisoning of Mrs. Garlett. But she may know who did it. And now I want to know if I may go to the Thatched Farm and write out two telegrams, one to Mrs. Lightfoot, the other to a friend of mine with whom I mean to spend to-night in London. Would you take them for me to the post office?”

“That I will,” said Lucy.

As they walked toward the farm together, it was as if there sounded loudly in Jean's ear the words Sir Harold Anstey had uttered a couple of days ago: “Find the man or woman who wrote those anonymous letters, and I promise to save your lover's life.”

Jean Bower now felt that she knew who had written those letters.

title: The Terriford Mystery/Chapter 20


text: Translation:Announcements, Acts, and Decrees From the Reign of Rama VII/Tome 8


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The Terriford Mystery/Chapter 21

O JEAN BOWER it was an extraordinary stroke of good fortune that to-day, for the first time for many weeks, Dr. Maclean had persuaded his wife to accept an invitation to luncheon. Thanks to that circumstance, the overwrought girl was able to go back to Bonnie Doon, pack a small bag containing the clothes she felt she must take with her, write a short note to the kind folk to whom she stood in so curious a relation, and, finally, enjoy a comforting talk with Elsie McTaggart.

Somehow she now felt much more at ease with Elsie than with either her uncle or aunt. Elsie was a whole-hearted believer in Harry Garlett's innocence, and a believer, too, that he was sure to come out, as she put it, “all richt.” So it was that at the very last moment before quitting Bonnie Doon, she knew not for how long, Jean went into the kitchen and took tight hold of Elsie's work-worn hand.

“I'm going away, Elsie,” she said, “in order to do something that may help Mr. Garlett. I can't say more, and if I did they wouldn't approve.”

The girl continued, somewhat bitterly: “They've wanted me to go away—they've longed for me to go away! Well, now I am going away. I don't know for how long. Here's a note in which I've given an address where I can be written to, and of course I'll let them know how I am, now and again.”

Then as she heard the sound of a motor, the colour rushed to her face.

“They can't be back yet,” she exclaimed in a dismayed tone.

Elsie smiled. “That's the machine I just telephoned for to Grendon. You were never going to walk to the station? That would have been a foolish thing to do when maybe you've some hard days in front of you.”

Jean took Elsie in her arms and hugged her. Then she kissed her on both cheeks. “Good-bye, Elsie, I know that you wish me well.”

“Ay, indeed. I'll be doing that.”

And so, very quietly and without consulting anybody, Jean Bower started on what was to be her great adventure. It was such a comfort to feel that to Rachel North, at least, she owed no explanations that she did not choose to give, no duty of any sort, only gratitude for present kindness done. It was also soothing to know that in London she would be but one of millions of people intent on their own business and not on hers. How different from a place where she could hardly walk a few steps in the daylight without knowing that even the village children were pointing her out to each other!

Cuthbert Street, Belgravia? The address sounded grand to her country ears. But she knew that Rachel North in far-away days had had a large circle of friends. Perhaps it was some kindly survivor of those distant days who had lent her a flat.

On and on her taxi took her, through the dark streets, for it was a late Saturday afternoon, and to Jean, looking out of the windows, the long dreary streets seemed to grow shabbier and shabbier.

At last it turned into a thoroughfare which seemed interminable, and of which the houses had that depressing, almost terrible, look of having seen better days. The plaster was peeling off the stucco walls, and here and there a window was broken. There was a look of indescribable grime and dirt, even on the pavements.

At last the driver drew up opposite the very last house in the street, one that overlooked a railway bridge.

“I reckon it's here,” he said looking round dubiously.

Jean told herself that there must be some mistake. The house looked even more forlorn than did its neighbours, and while she was glancing up at the gray crusted walls and dirty windows, she heard the shriek of a train, and a moment later there came a deafening roar.

“Come, miss! This is 200, Cuthbert Street, right enough. You give me my fare, and let me go off,” said the man rather roughly. “I'm on another job in a few minutes, and this is such an out-of-the-way part.”

She paid him the big sum marked on the taximeter, took her hold-all out of the cab, and with a slight sensation of fear, as well as of deep surprise, she pressed the top one of the four knobs which seemed to indicate that the house had four occupiers.

For what seemed a considerable while nothing happened; and she pressed the second knob. Then, at last, a slatternly-looking woman opened the door and looked at her disagreeably.

“You're not wanting Mrs. Stratford?” she asked.

“Does Miss Rachel North live here? I've come to stay with her,” said Jean, trembling a little.

“As I've had the trouble of opening the door to you, you can walk up. It's the top floor. But you'd no business to press my bell.”

“I'm sorry,” faltered Jean.

“We're not allowed to put our names outside the door. And it's a shame, that it is! I'm always coming up from my basement just to open the door to some other lady's visitors.”

The woman turned round, leaving the front door open. Jean shut it, and began slowly walking up the narrow dark staircase. The house looked more than dirty; it looked degraded.

On and on she went, past frowsy-looking landings, till she reached the top floor. There—a change indeed! A piece of linoleum, scrupulously clean, was on the landing, and, as she moved cautiously forward and knocked on the door opposite the top of the staircase, a voice which had once been very familiar, called out: “Come in!”

She turned the handle, and saw before her a plainly furnished, but pleasant little sitting room, and a girl who she knew was Rachel North, rose from a low chair by the fire, and came forward.

“Why, Jean, I didn't expect you for another hour! I looked out the trains from Grendon. You must have come by a slow one.”

“I did,” she answered rather breathlessly. “I was in such a hurry to get away.”

“I know—to get busy,” said the other nodding her head.

She was a reserved girl, and she did not kiss Jean Bower. Instead, she took both her visitor's hands, held them firmly, and gazed into her face.

“I won't say much,” she exclaimed. “But I should like you to know that I do understand what you are feeling, what you are going through, and I'll do everything in my power to help you. You know I'm engaged all day. I'm so glad to-day happened to be a Saturday. But for that I shouldn't have got your telegram until after you'd arrived in London!”

And then she drew Jean toward the bright little fire.

“It isn't a bad place,” she said critically, “once one's up here. The rest of the house is filthy.”

She took Jean's hold-all. “Is this all you've brought?”

“Yes,” said Jean, and there crept a tone of defiance into her voice. “I think I may as well tell you at once why I've come to London. I'm going to take a place on Monday as general servant in a house where some one lives who, I believe might help, if she chose to do so, to prove Harry's innocence.”

“I see,” said Rachel North slowly, “a bit of detective work? Knowing how sensible you used to be, I suppose that you're acting under advice, eh?”

“Not altogether—but yes, I think I may say I'm acting under advice. Perhaps I ought to go out now and get clothes of the kind needed for that sort of work?”

There came a troubled look into her face, and the older girl felt touched, even a little amused.

“Don't you worry about clothes,” she exclaimed. “I came very low down in the world at one time, and I've kept the things I wore then. They're awfully shabby, but they're quite clean. I don't quite know why I kept them—it was a sort of superstitious feeling. I felt that if I gave them away, I might want them again. But now, well, my dear, you know I've all sorts of queer ideas—now I think I was probably intended to keep them that I might help you!”

That this question should be settled so easily and so well was more of a relief than perhaps Jean would have admitted even to herself. She had given the matter of her outfit for 106, Coburg Square, a good deal of anxious thought on her railway journey. She realized that the whole of her scheme would fail if the woman to whose employment she was going suspected that she was playing a part. She was too sensible to suppose that she would be able to pass herself off as a simple country girl of the working class, but she did hope that she would be able to make her employer believe that she was out to earn an honest living, in however humble a capacity.

And then, after they had enjoyed their cold supper, and while Jean was lying back in an extraordinarily comfortable couch which yet looked oddly big for the little room, her friend exclaimed:

“Perhaps I'd better tell you now that you're really on what's going to be your bed. I've thought it over, and though I should have been delighted to give you my bedroom and to have slept in here, I somehow felt that you'd far rather sleep here and leave me my bedroom, eh?”

“Indeed, indeed, I would!” exclaimed Jean.

“I know,” the other nodded. “I once went to stay with a friend, and I can't tell you what I felt when I discovered the next day that she had turned out of her room and slept in the kitchen!”

Jean Bower awoke to find her friend smiling down at her. There was a cup of tea in her hand.

“Now then, you just drink this up. Then I'll light the fire, and after I've done that I'll bring you those clothes I told you about. I've just had a look at them. They're old-fashioned and ugly, but I don't know that that really matters. After all, your object is to look the part”

Jean sat up and drank the tea thirstily. Oh! how restful to be here with this quiet, reserved young woman who, while obviously sympathizing with her, was not in the least inquisitive.

She caught Rachel North's hand and pulled her down.

“You know I'm grateful to you, without my saying so,” she whispered. “I shall never forget how good you've been!”

“I've not been more good to you than two or three people were to me, in my deep trouble. But I took my trouble in a way I hope you will never do, Jean,” replied the other girl. “I cut myself off from everybody after my father's death. I was wrong in that—I see it now. But I was so unhappy”—her face altered, it became convulsed with feeling, and she turned quickly away, busying herself in making and lighting the fire.

Then she went off into her room and came back with a curious little heap of garments in her arms. There was a brown serge coat and skirt—the skirt unfashionably full, while the coat was short and skimpy. Then there were two clean, washed-out-looking flannel blouses.

“This, I take it, is the sort of thing you want? But I strongly advise you to buy some thick woollen underwear. After all, the woman won't see what you're wearing underneath your coat and skirt.”

“How clever you are, Rachel. I should never have thought of that,” said Jean admiringly.

“You don't want to go and fall ill the first day you're there. Especially as you'll have need of an alert mind. I'm afraid you'll have very nasty food.”

“I don't mind that,” said Jean quickly.

“Oh, don't you? Well, you wait a bit. It's easy to talk like that! I've come to think that nice food is one of the most important things in the world. If I were you I should take some malted milk, or cod liver oil and malt, in your trunk.”

“Trunk?” queried Jean doubtfully.

“A good, big, deep suit-case rather than a wooden box. The woman who's going to employ you won't think your bringing such a thing queer at all. In fact, I think she'd think it odd if you came with practically nothing but a hold-all.”

“I suppose that's true,” said Jean. “All right—I put myself in your hands. You shall tell me what to do!”

Rachel North smiled. She was one of those women who love power, and, given the chance, exercise it wisely.

“If you don't mind getting up a bit early on Monday morning there's a place close by here, a great big cheap store, where all the working girls go. We'll get some kind of suit-case there, and we'll buy two sets of their best warm underclothing. If your employer should see them by any chance you can say they were given you by a kind lady!”

And then they both burst into peals of girlish laughter. Jean had not laughed so heartily as that for many a long day.

“By the way, have you chosen a good name to call yourself by?”

“I'm going as 'Elizabeth Chart,' my mother's maiden name,” and the laughter died out of her eyes.

Suddenly Rachel said, “I must go out and get my Sunday papers. When one is leading a lonely life one does depend tremendously on reading, and, I'm not ashamed to say it, on newspaper reading. Papers are my only luxury, and on Sundays I have a regular debauch!”

Jean was staring into the fire.

“I suppose you've read everything that's been printed about, about”—and then she said rather defiantly—“about Harry and me? I know there must have been horrid things, for Uncle Jock made me promise not to look at the papers—not even at the paper they take in at Bonnie Doon.”

“Yes,” said Rachel North reluctantly, “I have seen a good deal about you, Jean. But everything so far about you has been kind.”

And then Jean jumped up from her chair.

“I hate that!” she exclaimed. “I'd far rather they said horrible things—as I know they do about Harry.”

“They have to be careful,” said Rachel North in a detached tone. “No paper is allowed to prejudge a case.”

“Yet they do prejudge it!” exclaimed Jean Brower excitedly.

“Well, yes, in a sense I'm afraid they do.”

When Rachel North came back she handed the bundle of papers to Jean, and began bustling in and out of her tiny kitchen getting dinner ready—a delicate little bit of undercut which was to be served French fashion with fried potatoes and some salad.

Jean began looking at one of the papers listlessly. Then all at once she realized that in the middle of the big sheet was a square space, and within it, running ribbon-wise across the top ran:

Jean read the paragraph again and again. Then she called out, “Rachel, come here, and tell me what this means?”

Rachel North hurried into the room. She knelt down by £he girl's side and read the paragraph.

“It means,” she said in a quiet, matter-of-fact voice, “that if this paper is to be believed the prosecution have found where the arsenic was purchased. The implication is that it was purchased by Mr. Garlett; hence those words, 'The situation is unchanged. No further arrests are contemplated.'”

And then something happened which, though it terrified Rachel North, gave a few moments of merciful oblivion to Jean Bower. The supple, rounded figure, full of the strength of living life, suddenly sagged. She would have fallen on the floor had not the other caught hold of her. But Rachel North's hospital training stood her in good stead. She laid the unconscious form flat on the floor, and rushing off to her bedroom, came back with some sal-volatile which she forced through Jean's lips. And at last, with a low moan the girl regained consciousness.

After a few moments she struggled up on to her knees. Then she looked round her, dazed, forgetting where she was, and what had happened. But all too soon everything rushed back into her mind.

Painfully she lifted herself up again on to the chair.

“I want to read that paragraph again,” she said in a trembling voice. “I want to understand exactly what it means.”

“I don't think you will be able to do that, dear. It's put in that odd, uncertain way on purpose; but honestly, Jean, I don't think you need attach much importance to it!”

And then, for the first time since her arrival, Jean Bower had a heart-to-heart talk with Rachel North over the whole mysterious story. They discussed every alternative possibility, and, as so often happens, Jean began to feel happier, more self-controlled, as a result of that long talk. One thing which greatly comforted her was that after hearing all she had to say Rachel North suddenly exclaimed:

“I think I was wrong as to what I said to you—I mean as to the prosecution having found the place where Mr. Garlett may have purchased arsenic. What I think has happened is that they have found something in the Thatched House from which arsenic can be extracted. Now apparently arsenic can be extracted from almost anything! That being so, it would be strange indeed if nothing of the sort had been found.”

“That's true,” said Jean, “and yet”—her face clouded over—“and yet, Rachel, they've left no stone unturned—one might almost say that literally—to find arsenic in the Thatched House.”

Rachel North took her friend's hand. “You will want all your wits about you during this experiment that you are going to try. If you allow yourself to be unnerved by what has been published by that paper then I'm afraid you'll injure your chance of success. From all you tell me, I agree with you that that woman Agatha Cheale knows far more than she has chosen to tell. Her behaviour after Mr. Garlett was committed for trial—I mean her behaviour in coming down to see Miss Prince—is to my mind almost an indication that she knows something she is unwilling to reveal. Now I wonder—perhaps you'll be shocked at what I'm going to say, Jean—I wonder if Miss Cheale—well, to put it plainly, was fond of Mr. Garlett?”

Jean looked at Rachel.

“Yes,” she said slowly, “I'm afraid Miss Cheale did care for Harry, and it's because I can't help suspecting that she had something to do with the writing of those anonymous letters that I'm going to the house where she is living. She's only seen me twice in her life. I feel sure she won't know me again, and, as I've already told you, Sir Harold Anstey thinks it is all-important that I should find out who wrote those letters.”

“I agree,” said Rachel quickly. “Whoever wrote those letters was either instigated by the most fiendish spite, and simply wanted to make Mr. Garlett miserable for nothing, or else he or she must have known that if an exhumation should take place arsenic would certainly be found in Mrs. Garlett's body.”

“I think Agatha Cheale wrote those letters to make Harry wretched—to punish him for not having loved her. If I thought she knew Mrs. Garlett was poisoned, then I should regard her as” she broke off in what she was going to say, and the other exclaimed, “A—murderess? Yes, that's the only logical conclusion!”

title: The Terriford Mystery/Chapter 21