"Keep this, I pray you, out of friendship for Hena, your relative and friend." Joel, his wife and his three children, to all of whom Hena had not yet given aught, looked at one another all the more astonished at what she did, seeing that towards the end tears appeared in her eyes although the young maid gave no other token of sadness. When all the others were supplied, Hena took from her neck the garnet necklace that she wore and said to Margarid while kissing her hand: "Hena prays her mother to keep this out of love for her." She then took the little rolls of white skin that had been prepared for writing on, handed them to Joel and kissing his hand said: "Hena prays her father to keep this roll out of love for her; he will there find her most cherished thoughts." Detaching thereupon from her arm her two garnet bracelets, Hena said to the wife of her brother Guilhern, the laborer: "Hena prays her sister Henory to wear this bracelet out of love for her." And giving the other bracelet to her brother the mariner she said: "Your wife, Meroe, whom I love as much for her courage as for her noble heart, is to keep this bracelet as a souvenir from me." Hena then took from her copper belt the little gold sickle and crescent that hung from it. She tendered the former to Guilhern the laborer, the second to Albinik the mariner, and taking a ring from her finger she gave it to Mikael the armorer, saying to the three: "I wish my brothers to preserve these keepsakes out of love for their sister Hena." All those present remained astonished and holding in their hands the gifts that the virgin of the Isle of Sen had delivered to them. They all remained standing and so speechless with astonishment that none could utter a word, but looked uneasily at one another as if threatened by some unknown disaster. Hena finally turned to Stumpy: "Stumpy," said she, "I shall now let you know who is to be the third sacrifice of this evening;" and taking the hands of Joel and Margarid she gently led them back into the large hall, whither all the others followed. Arrived there, Hena addressed her parents and assembled relatives: "My father and mother know that the blood of a cowardly murderer is an expiatory offering to Hesus, and that it might appease him--" "Yes--you told us so, dear daughter." "They also know that the blood of a brave man who dies in pledge of friendship is a valorous offering to Hesus, and that it might appease him." "Yes--you told us so, dear daughter."