TO MY WIFE,

JESSIE KNIGHT JORDAN.




PREFATORY NOTE.

This volume is made up of separate sketches, historical or allegorical,
having in some degree a bond of union in the idea of "the higher
sacrifice."

I am under obligations to Professor William R. Dudley for the use of a
photograph of a record of Father Serra. This was secured through the
kindness of the late Father Casanova, of Monterey.

PALO ALTO, CAL., June 1, 1896.




CONTENTS.


THE STORY OF THE INNUMERABLE COMPANY
THIS STORY OF THE PASSION