l stones and implored God's pardon for this stubborn sinner, whose
heart was hardened against the divine grace. Mosk gave no sign of
hearing the supplication; but when Gabriel was passing out of the cell,
he suddenly rushed forward and kissed his hand. 'God, in His mercy, pity
and pardon you, Mosk,' said Gabriel, and left the wretched man with his
frozen heart shivering under the black, black shadow of the gallows.

It was with a sense of relief that the curate found himself once more
in the sunshine. As he walked swiftly along towards the palace, to carry
the good news to his father, he thanked God in his heart that the shadow
of impending disaster had passed away. The incriminating papers were in
the right hands; their secret was known only to himself, to Graham, and
to the bishop. When the truth was told to his mother, and her position
had been rectified by a second marriage, Gabriel felt that all would be
safe. Cargrim knew nothing of the truth, and therefore could do nothing.
With the discovery of the actual criminal all his wicked plans had come
to naught; and it only remained for the man he had wronged so deeply to
take from him the position of trust which he had so dishonourably
abused. As for Gabriel himself, he determined to marry Bell Mosk, as he
had promised her miserable father, and to sail with his wife for the
mission fields of the South Seas. There they could begin a new life,
and, happy in one another's love, would forget the past in assiduous
labours amongst the heathen. Baltic knew the South Seas; Baltic could
advise and direct how they should begin to labour in that vineyard of
the Lord; and Baltic could start them on a new career for the glory of
God and the sowing of the good seed. With thoughts like these, Gabriel
walked along, wrapped in almost apocalyptic visions, and saw with
inspired gaze the past sorrows of himself and Bell fade and vanish in
the glory of a God-guided, God-provided future. It was not the career he
had shadowed forth for himself; but he resigned his ambitions for Bell's
sake, and aided by love overcame his preference for civilised ease.
_Vincit, qui se vincit._

While Gabriel was thus battling, and thus overcoming, Baltic was seated
beside Mosk, striving to bring him to a due sense of his wickedness and
weakness, and need of God's forgiveness. He had prayed, and reproved,
and persuaded, and besought, many times before; but had hitherto been
baffled by the cynicism and stubborn