Amen." Then he drank off the second half tumbler of brandy, hid his face in his hands and began to sob, muttering: "Mother, why did you leave me?
Oh, mother, come back to me, mother, and save my soul from hell!" Barbara and Anthony awoke from their dream of the dreadful earth and looked into each other's hearts.
"It is true," said their hearts, which could not lie, and with those words all the glory of their state faded to a grey nothingness.
"You have seen and heard," said Barbara.

"It was my sin which has brought this misery on our son, who, had I lived on, might have been saved.

Now through me he is lost, who step by step of his own will must travel downwards to the last depth, and thence, perhaps, never be raised again.

This is the thing that I have done, yes, I whom blind judges in the world held to be good." "I have seen and heard," he answered, "and joy has departed from me.

Yet what wrong have you worked, who did not know ?" "Come, my father," called Barbara to that spirit who in the flesh had been named Septimus Walrond, "come, you who are holy, and pray that light may be given to us." So he came and prayed and from the Heavens above fell a vision in answer to his prayer.