to deny the people
that life-giving fount, but to give them to drink through the
channels God Himself has appointed! Then, indeed, methinks heresy
would soon cease to exist. But theirs is not the way; God who
dwelleth in the heavens will soon show them that. Theirs is not the
way!"

But time there was none now for one of those conversations in which
Edred's heart delighted. Julian burst in then with the story of the
latest scene in that solemn spectacle--of the whispered words of
Brother Fabian; of the call for Brother Emmanuel; of the appeal
made to Sir Oliver, and his reply; and finally of the certainty
that the house would speedily be searched, and the necessity of
getting into safe hiding before that happened.

"Safe hiding!" said Brother Emmanuel with a slight smile; "my kind
pupils, there can be no safe hiding from the messengers sent forth
from the Church. Wherever I am they will find and drag me forth. I
am grateful for all the goodness shown to me at Chad by all within
its walls; but none shall suffer on my account. It hath not pleased
God to open to me a way of escape, wherefore I must now yield
myself to the will of my enemies; and it were better to go forth
and be taken by the spies without than to remain here a source of
peril to those within these walls."

"But there is yet another way!" cried Edred with flashing eyes.
"Thou shalt not go forth, and yet thou shalt not be a source of
peril to any living soul. Brother Emmanuel, methinks it was God's
doing, or that of the holy saints, that this hap befell us which
revealed to us a safe hiding place of which none knows but
ourselves, not even our father and mother, and the secret of which
we have preserved unto this day, resisting the temptation to
divulge it to any living soul. Time presses. When we are there I
will tell thee all the tale--how this secret place came to our
knowledge. But now let us tarry no longer, but come quickly and see
for thyself. Once within that friendly shelter thou wilt have
naught to fear save the loneliness to which thou art well used.

"See, there is Julian already opening the door. Come, my father,
come!"

Julian had kindled the little lamp the boys had constructed for
themselves, and which was much upon the principle of a modern
bull's-eye, and could be safely carried through draughty passages
without flickering or going out; and now the wondering monk allowed
Edred to take him by the hand and lead him step by step along