Why then should I trouble myself to grant this desire of yours in the present, and save a man who is nothing to me ?' "I rose to my feet and answered, 'I do not know, my Father, yet I am certain that for your own sake it will be well to do so.

I am sure that of everything even you must give an account at last, great though you be, and who knows, perhaps one life which you have saved may turn the balance in your favour.' "'Surely the priest Bastin has been talking to you,' he said.
"'He has,' I answered, 'and not he alone.

Many voices have been talking to me.'" "What did you mean by that ?" I asked.
"It matters nothing what I meant, Humphrey.

Be still and listen to my story.

My father thought a while and answered: "'I am jealous of this stranger.