CHAPTER 22: Whispers Abroad.
"Have naught to do with them, Cuthbert! I like them not." "Yet they be good men, and stanch and true.

Thou hast said so thyself a score of times in my hearing, good Jacob.

Why should I avoid them now?
What have they done amiss ?" Jacob passed his large hand across his face, and looked at Cuthbert with an expression of perplexity.
"They are Papists," he said at last, in a slightly vague and inconclusive fashion.
Cuthbert laughed aloud.
"Why, that I know well; and I am not scared by the name, as some of your Puritan folk seem to be.

Papists, after all, are fellow men--and fellow Christians too, if it comes to that.

It was a Christian act of theirs to take to their home that hunted priest whom we rescued that foggy night, Jacob.