He had a sudden desire to rend this philosophic Catholic--to put him under the thumb-screw for the glory of the Lord, and to justify the Church; but the little Catholic miller-magnate gave freely to St.Saviour's; he was popular; he had a position; he was good to the poor; and every Christmas-time he sent a half-dozen bags of flour to the presbytery! All Pere Savry ventured to say in reply was: "Upon your head be it, M.
Jean Jacques.

I have done my duty.

I shall hope to see madame at mass next Sunday." Jean Jacques had chuckled over that episode, for he had conquered; he had shown M.Savry that he was master in his own household and outside it.

That much his philosophy had done for him.

No other man in the parish would have dared to speak to the Cure like that.