The convert’s yearnings—“Go and tell”—When parents oppose each other which shall the child follow?—A child of the kingdom in a new family circle—Jesus, Mary and the elect—Miriamne’s two great ambitions—Living apart may be as sinful as actual divorcement—Father Adolphus encourages and Rizpah opposes Miriamne—Rizpah recounts to Miriamne the story of her love for Sir Charleroy, his madness and her own futile visit to London in the effort to win him back—The curse of heredity—“I’ll disown thee with tears in my voice and kisses in my heart.” Page 351 CHAPTER XXV.—CONSOLATRIX AFFLICTORUM. Miriamne’s welcome by the London Palestineans—The daughter meets her father in a mad-house—Disappointment—The flight—The search—The White Madonna of the Asylum Park—Love the remedy of minds perturbed by hate—Pallas-Athene the virgin of the heathen—Miriamne’s letter to her mother and its grim answer. Page 367 CHAPTER XXVI.—THE WEDDING AT CANA. Sir Charleroy giving signs of recovery under Miriamne’s Ministries—A remarkable service in the chapel of the Palestineans—The knight interested in the story of Cana—The address of Cornelius, on “Home” and “Marriage”—“Is this London or Bozrah?”—Sir Charleroy’s sudden relapse—Miriamne’s adroit ministries—Memories that awaken hopes—The clouds again lifting—Mary’s life motto. Page 381 CHAPTER XXVII.—THE STAR OF THE SEA. Sir Charleroy, partially restored, with Miriamne and Cornelius journeying toward Syria—Passing Cyprus—Olympus—A storm rising on the Mediterranean—Cornelius presses his love suit on Miriamne—Miriamne pledges love, but pleads her mission as a barrier to marriage—Conflicts below, tempests aloft—A dream; Venus’s court and Mary’s triumph—Sir Charleroy in frenzy defying the billows—An hour of peril—The “Lightning Song” of the sailors—The twin stars—“Mary, Star of the Sea”—The victims of fabricated consciences—Parting. Page 397 CHAPTER XXVIII.—THE QUEEN IN THE VALLEY OF SORROWS. Father and daughter at Acre—The mysterious Hospitaler—From Acre to Joppa—“The myths are as full of women as the women are full of myths”—The wars of men about women—At Jerusalem—The wonderful words of the Knight-Hospitaler, turned preacher—The _Via Dolorosa_—The Valley of Jehosaphat—The mountain outlook—“Soldiers Speed the Cross”—Mary, the sun of women, rising in moral grandeur above the women of the grove-shrines—The panorama of the ages, passing before Mary’s mind. Page 419 CHAPTER XXIX.—TWO DEAD HEARTS UNITING TWO LIVING ONES.