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Wingfold was seated in the shade of the trees, but Helen, happening to want something for her work, went to him and committed her brother to his care until she should return, whereupon he took her place. Almost the same moment however, he spied Polwarth coming from the little door in the fence, and went to meet him.
Sir Patrick was now Lord Polwarth; he had the custody of the Great Seal of Scotland; he presided in the Privy Council; and thus he had it in his power to do the worst action of his bad life. It remained to be seen how the clergy of Edinburgh would act.
Still no daybreak and now the miracles had grown troublesome! Could Mr. Polwarth honestly say that he found no difficulty in believing things so altogether out of the common order of events, and so buried in the darkness and dust of antiquity that investigation was impossible? Mr. Polwarth could not say that he had found no such difficulty.
Every cottage, stable, and shed in the neighbourhood of the castle was searched, but no one examined the vaults in Polwarth Church. Sir Patrick Hume was safe from discovery in his gruesome hiding-place, but he could not live without food, and the difficulty was to convey it to him without being detected.
"I found it in the second epistle to the Corinthians last night, and my heart has been full of it ever since. It is surely no very bad sign if the truth should make us merry at a time! It ought to do so, I think, seeing merriment is one of the lower forms of bliss." "I am at a loss to understand you, Mr. Polwarth," said the minister. "I beg your pardon, Mr. Drake. I will come to the point.
But he died asleep, as so many do; and fancied, I presume, that he was waking into his old life, when he woke into his new one. Wingfold stood on the other side of the bed, with Polwarth by him, for so had the departing wished it, and although he made no sign, I cannot but think he reaped some content therefrom.
Polwarth," returned Wingfold abruptly, "I cannot even prove there is a God!" "But the church of England exists for the sake of teaching Christianity, not proving that there is a God." "What is Christianity, then?" "God in Christ, and Christ in man." "What is the use of that if there be no God?" "None whatever." "Mr. Polwarth, can you prove there is a God?" "No."
With James Winter's assistance the Lady Polwarth got a bed and bed-clothes carried in the night to the burying-place, a vault under the ground at Polwarth Church, a mile from the house. Here Sir Patrick was concealed a whole month, never venturing out. For all light he had only an open slit at one end, through which nobody could see what was below.
Here Polwarth told him that, if, after all, he seemed to fail, he must conclude that possibly the meaning of the words was beyond him, and that the understanding of them depended on a more advanced knowledge of Jesns himself; for, while words reveal the speaker, they must yet lie in the light of something already known of the speaker to be themselves intelligible.
But he died asleep, as so many do; and fancied, I presume, that he was waking into his old life, when he woke into his new one. Wingfold stood on the other side of the bed, with Polwarth by him, for so had the departing wished it, and although he made no sign, I cannot but think he reaped some content therefrom.
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