"But as for the other matter, there can be little danger of your overstepping the mark.

Father Cassati is of a somewhat roistering disposition, over-fond of the bottle, in truth,--although it giveth me pain to speak thus of one of my own Order,--and I have been informed, moveth at his own will about the ship.

He is of the sort to be 'hail fellow, well met' with those roistering Spaniards, who care little for God or man, as he possesseth few scruples of his own." "Bear I sufficient resemblance to pass in his stead ?" "You are not unlike as to height and build; as to face, you are far the better featured.

With the cowl up it might be reasonably safe in a dim light." "My beauty has always been my undoing," I ventured, in awakened good humor.

"Nevertheless I shall be compelled to venture it this time; moreover, I am pleased to learn that things aboard are as you describe, for such a state of affairs may greatly serve our purpose." I turned away from him to recross the room and murmur a few words of brighter hope into the ear of Eloise, where she sat in white-faced silence amid the deeper shadows of the portiere..