His superior withheld any further information for the present.
"Everything in its turn," the discreet Father resumed; "the turn of explanation has not come yet.

I have something else to show you first.
One of the most interesting relics in England.

Look here." He unlocked a flat mahogany box, and displayed to view some writings on vellum, evidently of great age.
"You have had a little sermon already," he said.

"You shall have a little story now.

No doubt you have heard of Newstead Abbey--famous among the readers of poetry as the residence of Byron?
King Henry treated Newstead exactly as he treated Vange Abbey! Many years since, the lake at Newstead was dragged, and the brass eagle which had served as the lectern in the old church was rescued from the waters in which it had lain for centuries.