"And He will bless you!" She rose and gave her hand.

As she withdrew it she smiled.

"I had such a strange dream," she said, backing toward the door.
"Yes ?" "Yes.

I got my troubles all mixed up with your sermon.

I dreamed I made that pirate the guardian of my daughter." Pere Jerome smiled also, and shrugged.
"To you, Madame Delphine, as you are placed, every white man in this country, on land or on water, is a pirate, and of all pirates, I think that one is, without doubt, the best." "Without doubt," echoed Madame Delphine, wearily, still withdrawing backward.