"Then came she, saying: 'It is not mete to take the children's bread and to cast it to the dogs. Be unto, us an offering named as becometh saints. For this ye know, that no unclean person hath any inheritance because of disobedience and fellowship with works of darkness. For it is a shame to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.' "Beelzebub, the chief of devils, and sons cast out man; taketh from him all wherein he trusteth and divideth the spoils against me. "To purge conscience, the new testament means redemption of the transgressions under first testament. "Said a devil: 'Father, ye do dishonor me. Say ye know him not, thy son, and suffer that a notable prisoner, his wife and child, were not called by thy name.' 'I will,' said I. But I deny all here. My soul is sorrowful unto death, as I bear false witness against them. "The hand that betrayeth me is with me. "I appoint you to sift as wheat. "This must be accomplished, for the things concerning me have an end. "Words sent unto me out of prison, said: 'Daughter weep(s). Beseech thee graciously to fetch home to thee my child in tribulation. For lo, the ungodly bend their bow and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart. Show I thy marvellous loving-kindness unto an undefined soul forsaken on every side of mother and friendly neighbors. Make haste to deliver and save. I am clean forgotten, as a dead man out of mind. I am become as a broken vessel.' "Whilst I held my tongue, my bones consumed away daily. "I will inform thee and teach thee ill the way wherein thou shalt go. "Blessed are folk chosen to inheritance; the children of them that dwell under the king. "Poor Grac(e) come over the see (sea), unaware that I were sick. "Deliver my darling from the lions, so will I give thee thanks. "O let not them that are mine enemies triumph that hate me. "They imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land. "Child is in thy land. "Look after daughter among honorable women. House in City of the East Wind. [Footnote: Number omitted for obvious reasons.]"--C-H-A-R-L-E-S-S-T-R-E-E-T. "Child I have looked upon not. "I promised with my lips and spake with my mouth, but God turned his mercy upon me, and upon health hath sent forth his voice, yea, and that a mighty voice. "I sink, and the deep waters drown me. "Mine adversaries hath broken my heart. "Let the things that should have been for them be for the poor prisoner's posterity. "Break down the carved work and search out my will. "Walk to table under southwest borders of room, take the wood that hath in it operations of the law, and cleave. "For my days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered as grass." XXIII. TOO LATE. What fear is this, which startles in our ears? --ROMEO AND JULIET. The conclusion which I drew from these sentences after a close and repeated perusal of them was to this effect: