The same precautions had been observed as in Rome, for the directions issued were precise and searching; and day after day came in the long rolls of the new Religious drawn up by the diocesan superiors.
Within the last few days, too, other lists had arrived, more glorious than all.

Not only did reports stream in that already the Order was beginning its work and that already broken communications were being re-established, that devoted missioners were in process of organising themselves, and that hope was once more rising in the most desperate hearts; but better than all this was the tidings of victory in another sphere.

In Paris forty of the new-born Order had been burned alive in one day in the Latin quarter, before the Government intervened.

From Spain, Holland, Russia had come in other names.

In Dusseldorf eighteen men and boys, surprised at their singing of Prime in the church of Saint Laurence, had been cast down one by one into the city-sewer, each chanting as he vanished: "_Christi Fili Dei vivi miserere nobis,_" and from the darkness had come up the same broken song till it was silenced with stones.