Theirs is not the way!" But time there was none now for one of those conversations in which Edred's heart delighted.

Julian burst in then with the story of the latest scene in that solemn spectacle--of the whispered words of Brother Fabian; of the call for Brother Emmanuel; of the appeal made to Sir Oliver, and his reply; and finally of the certainty that the house would speedily be searched, and the necessity of getting into safe hiding before that happened.
"Safe hiding!" said Brother Emmanuel with a slight smile; "my kind pupils, there can be no safe hiding from the messengers sent forth from the Church.

Wherever I am they will find and drag me forth.

I am grateful for all the goodness shown to me at Chad by all within its walls; but none shall suffer on my account.

It hath not pleased God to open to me a way of escape, wherefore I must now yield myself to the will of my enemies; and it were better to go forth and be taken by the spies without than to remain here a source of peril to those within these walls." "But there is yet another way!" cried Edred with flashing eyes.
"Thou shalt not go forth, and yet thou shalt not be a source of peril to any living soul.