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All he knew was that the glory of the day was all about him, and, beside him, Joan was riding the Padre's sturdy horse. The girl at his side was no less uplifted. At the moment shadows troubled her not at all. They were gone, merged into soft, hazy gauzes through which peeped the scenes of life as she desired life to be, and every picture was rose-tinted with the wonderful light of an evening sun.
The Padre's fine face lit up also. He loved and respected Giovanni for a true Christian, and sometimes had to struggle against the temptation to judge his superior, the Abbot, who had forbidden him to visit Giovanni, to struggle against the temptation to appeal to Someone greater than abbots, greater than pontiffs, in his own soul.
"Yes, dear," said Elizabeth; "but thank God I must have been very wrong about the portmanteau. The outside-porter told me that he brought it up from the station to Major Benjy's house half an hour ago. Fancy your not knowing that! I feel sure he is a truthful man, for he attends the Padre's confirmation class.
For the padre's job, I take it, is to teach the men the right spirit, to send them to war as men should go, to assure them that this is a holy fight, that God is on their side.
But the appeal of the manner in which her curse still followed the girl, and the details she had read through the lines of her letter, a letter detailing the circumstances of her life on Yellow Creek, and written under the impulse and hope inspired by the Padre's support had given her the keenest interest.
Thus we progressed, till we reached the more open part of the forest, near the edge of the river. Candela now pushed on at a rapid rate, till we saw the light of our camp-fire a short distance off. I then proposed going ahead to announce the padre's coming.
"Stay here, Senor Barry," he whispered, "and I will go forward and prepare the Senor Padre for your coming." In less than a minute I heard the padre's voice exclaiming, "Yes, yes; I will see him gladly. I long to give him an abrazo!"
But we are satisfied now he was in the conspiracy from the beginning," translated Crosby painfully. "Look at his strange disappearance a regular put-up job," broke in Brace, in English, without reference to the Padre's not comprehending him; "so that he and Perkins could shut themselves up together without suspicion." "Never mind Hurlstone now; he's GONE, and we're HERE," said Banks angrily.
The detective opened the conversation. "Going to see the Padre again?" "I have an engagement with him this afternoon. I rather like the Padre!" "Sure you do," said the detective. "Everybody does. The Padre's a wonder, and the last man one might expect to find in a little parish like this." Mark wanted to learn more on that score. "True enough," he said.
It was the first unconcealed complaint that had escaped him, and he felt instant shame. But Gaston was too much elated with the enjoyment of each new day to comprehend the Padre's soul. The shafts of another's pain might hardly pierce the bright armor of his gaiety. He mistook the priest's entreaty, for anxiety about his own happy spirit. "Stay here under your care?" he asked.
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