But I believed him to be Raphael the Archangel--he who led Tobias, and gave sight to his father.

And even as it came to me to know him, he vanished; and I saw him no more." "And what was the Trinity Flower like, my Father ?" asked the boy.
"It was about the size of Herb Paris, my Son," replied the hermit, "But instead of being fourfold every way, it numbered the mystic Three.

Every part was threefold.

The leaves were three, the petals three, the sepals three.

The flower was snow-white, but on each of the three parts it was stained with crimson stripes, like white garments dyed in blood."[7] [Footnote 7: _Trillium erythrocarpum_.