he had almost burst out sobbing at the motto.
"Father, you give us the sanction of the Church!
Christ is on our side----"

"My son," the priest answered solemnly,
"Christ drove the moneychangers out of the
Temple, for His House shall be called a House
of Prayer, and they had made it a den of thieves."

After a long silence, Arthur whispered tremulously:

"And Italy shall be His Temple when they are
driven out----"

He stopped; and the soft answer came back:

"'The earth and the fulness thereof are mine,
saith the Lord.'"



CHAPTER V.

THAT afternoon Arthur felt the need of a long
walk. He intrusted his luggage to a fellow-student
and went to Leghorn on foot.

The day was damp and cloudy, but not cold; and
the low, level country seemed to him fairer than he
had ever known it to look before. He had a sense