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Nowhere did he find more complete calmness than here, in no spot could he pray more fervently, and the boon which he most ardently besought from Heaven was that it would spare him the fate of his insane mother, hold aloof the fiend which in many a gloomy hour he saw stretching a hand toward him. Here, too, he sought to penetrate the nature of death.
He found something humorous in receiving a tip of ten cents from the man whose life he had saved. He unsaddled the horse, put him in his stall, rubbed him down, and came forth to receive the unqualified praise of Walther. "You, Castel," he said, "you're a fiend for work. I can see that. Most of my men look upon work as an enemy. They run from it and hide from it.
When I cried out, 'Oh, why didn't you stop him! he said as coolly as if I had asked the most trivial question, 'Why should I? What right had I to interfere? It was terrible! He seemed to me a perfect fiend!" "It was who was it?" demanded her husband, a name almost escaping him in his excitement. "It was Dr. Ashton; the man who is coming to sit down at your table to-night.
Let those who, with powers to command and passions to wing the powers, would sweep without scruple from the aim to the end, who, trampling beneath their footprint of iron the humanities that bloom up in their path, would march to success with the proud stride of the destroyer, hear, in the laugh of yon maniac murderess, the glee of the fiend they have wooed to their own souls!
"Well the word for the night is 'Bloody end to the Pope, don't forget, now, 'Bloody end to the Pope," and with these words he banged the door between him and the unfortunate priests; and, as bolt was fastened after bolt, they heard him laughing to himself like a fiend over his vengeance.
'A lively prospect for poor Pelagie. 'What a little fiend he is! 'Spinsters for ever! With these remarks, the ladies ordered their own equipage, an infant omnibus, much in vogue in Dinan, where retired army officers, English or Scotch, drive about with their little families of eighteen or twenty.
They've been changing your name, over this side the river, I see. How did that happen?" Again Chip was uncomfortable. "We've got a cook that is out of sight when it comes to Saratoga chips, and I'm a fiend for them, you see. The boys got to calling me Saratoga Chip, and then they cut it down to Chip and stuck to it." "I see. There was a fellow with you over there Davidson. What has become of him?"
Idleness and fulness of bread have made him what he is a luxurious and self-willed dreamer, battening on his own fancies. Were it not rather a boon to him to take from him the root of all evil? Most true, vicar. And yet the devil was at that moment transforming himself into an angel of light for thee. But the vicar was yet honest. Again the little fiend whispered,
Merefleet. And she belonged to that fiend." They began to walk towards the boats through the shifting shingle. Merefleet had nothing to say. There was something in her passionate speech that disturbed him vaguely. She spoke as one whose most sacred personal interests had once been at stake. "Lucky for her she's dead, Big Bear," she said presently, with a side-glance at him.
He exhorted his host to rouse up his spirit, and defy the foul fiend; but the tone of his exhortations found no sympathetic chord in the mind of my patron. He had not the skill to carry conviction to an understanding so well fortified in error.
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