Yet it hurt me to feel you could deem me thoughtless toward my father." "You have seen him since his arrest ?" "Once only--at the Captain-General's office, before they were condemned and taken aboard the flag-ship." "But the prisoners are Catholics; surely they are permitted the offices of the Church at such a time ?" A hard look swept across the Capuchin's pale, ascetic face.
"Oh, ay! I had quite forgotten," he explained bitterly.

"They enjoy the ministrations of Father Cassati, of our Order, as representative of Holy Church." "Pouf!" I muttered gloomily.

"It is bad to have the guard-lines drawn so closely.

Besides, I know little about the way of ships; how they are arranged within, or even along the open decks.

We meet them not in the backwoods, so this is an adventure little to my taste.