We Protestants know that it is Bible law that evil must never be done that good may come; but the Papists hold that they may do never so many crimes and evil deeds if they may but win some point of theirs at last.

Thou dost not hold such false doctrine, I trow, Cuthbert?
thou art a soul above such false seeming." Cuthbert drew his brows together in a thoughtful reverie.
"I trow thou hast the right of it, Jacob," he answered.

"I love not dark scheming, nor love I these endless plots.

Yet in these days of oppression it must be hard for men to act openly.

If they be driven to secret methods, the fault is less theirs than that of their rulers." "There be faults on both sides, I doubt not," answered Jacob, with calm toleration.