None shall go venturing, exploring, but I shall pray for him." "Thee will break thy heart and thy life exploring," said Luke Claridge bitterly.

Experiment in life he did not understand, and even Benn Claridge's emigration to far lands had ever seemed to him a monstrous and amazing thing, though it ended in the making of a great business in which he himself had prospered, and from which he had now retired.

He suddenly realized that a day of trouble was at hand with this youth on whom his heart doted, and it tortured him that he could not understand.
"By none of these things shall I break my life," was David's answer now.
For a moment he stood still and silent, then all at once he stretched out his hands to them.

"All these things I did were against our faith.
I desire forgiveness.

I did them out of my own will; I will take up your judgment.