You have grown up on the sea, Haggart--tell me, what is that faint light on the right ?" "That is the lighthouse of the Holy Cross." "Aha! The lighthouse of the Holy Cross.

I didn't know that.

But can such a faint light help in time of a storm?
I look and it always seems to me that the light is going out.

I suppose it isn't so." Haggart, agitated but restrained, says: "You frighten me, sir.

Why do you ask me what you know better than I do?
You want to tempt me--you know everything." There is not a trace of a smile in the mournful voice--nothing but sadness.
"No, I know little.