The horse, guided by an experienced hand, plunged fearlessly into the woods.

Ten minutes later he emerged on the other side.
A gloomy mass, isolated in the middle of a plain, rose about a hundred feet from the forest.

It was a building of massive architecture, shaded by five or six venerable trees.

The horseman paused before the portal, over which were placed three statues in a triangle of the Virgin, our Lord, and St.John the Baptist.

The statue of the Virgin was at the apex of the triangle.
The mysterious traveller had reached his goal, for this was the Chartreuse of Seillon.