"Why steal it?
It is in your hands! You have it! It is Heaven's own opportunity, it is God's opportunity given to you!" For he could not read her mind nor comprehend the scruple which held her hand.

He was single-minded.

He had but one aim, one object.

He saw the haggard faces of brave men hopeless; he heard the dying cries of women and children.

Such an opportunity of saving God's elect, of redeeming the innocent, was in his eyes a gift from Heaven.