"And the keepers before the door kept the prison."

_Acts xii. 6._


"A deep below the deep
And a height beyond the height!
Our hearing is not hearing,
And our seeing is not sight."

_The Voice and the Peak._

ALFRED TENNYSON.




CONTENTS

_PART ONE_

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE LESSON 1

II. THE ALLY 16

III. THE OBSTACLE 27

IV. THE SETTING OF THE WATCH 37