"Have I encountered him!" cried the chevalier. "And who but myself could
have----?"

"They are waiting for prayers," said Erard, opening the door. "Dear
grandpapa, will you come?"

The old man followed the child, and his tearful eyes soon rested on the
Book of God.

"Grandpapa, you are weeping!" said Erard, approaching the old man. "What
is the matter? Are you suffering?"

"Listen to the word of consolation," said Gottfried, making the child
sit down; "and may the Spirit of Jesus himself address it to our
hearts."

He read then from the book of Psalms, and said a few words on
resignation to the will of God, and in his humble prayer supplicated God
to remember the chevalier and his family, and to bless him in the house
whither he had been brought in his mercy. "Amen! Amen!" repeated all the
servants.




CHAPTER III.


THEOBALD'S ACCOUNT OF HIS CONFLICT WITH ARNOLD THE LION--HATRED OP