Too confiding, he really believed this insidious letter, and that he might now go home and live there with his religion unshackled.

He wrote a favorable reply.

The family was doubtless urged to make sure of the victim before anything occurred to change his mind, and the very next day four of his relations, including Phares, came to escort him to Hadet.

The missionaries all believed it perilous, and so he thought himself, but he believed, also, that there was now a door opened for him prudently to preach the Gospel.

At Beirut, he said, he could only use his pen, "but who is there in this country," he asked, "that reads ?" One of the sisters of the mission said, as she took him by the hand, that she expected never to see him again in this world.