And then!" There was a tone of exultation in his voice at the closing words.
"And whosoever marrieth her which is put away, committeth adultery." Hendrickson started to his feet, his face as pale as ashes, and glanced almost fearfully about the room.

The voice seemed spoken in the air--but it was not so.

The warning had reached his sense of hearing by an inner way.
Then he sat down, and pondered this new question, so suddenly presented for solution, turning it towards every light--viewing it now from the side of human feeling and human reason--and now with the light of Divine Revelation shining upon it.

But he was not satisfied.

The letter of the record was against him; but nature cried out for some different reading.