And he would say no more, but would walk with me even to my father's door.

"May the Blessed Virgin and all the Saints be with you," he said at parting, "if you will have a blessing from them.

And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him.

Tell him the old man says his fluting will be heard." And now, David, I have told thee all, nearly.

Remains to say that thy one letter did our hearts good.