Then the Professor, looking across at the lovers, who had drawn together in the semi-obscurity, murmured to himself, "Which is better--to love or to go lonely? Which is happier--John d'Albret--or I? Who hath better served the Lord--Valentine the cloistered Carmelite, or Jean-aux-Choux the Calvinist, gone forth into the world to fight after his fashion the fight of faith?" Then aloud he said, speaking so suddenly that every one in the comfortable kitchen started, "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth!" Without, Jean-aux-Choux faced the storm and was happy. Within, the lovers sat hand in hand in a great peace, and were happy also. And in her narrow cell, who shall say that Valentine la Niña had not also some happiness? She had given her life for another. THE END