le but that she might have shared the same
fate.

The trust and confidence the mother and son had in each other was a
comfort to the Pastor. It was the best guarantee for Helga's future.

"It is late," said the Pastor; "but I know the clerk at the Domkirke
(cathedral), and you can possibly see it."

The advantage of seeing the Domkirke with the Pastor was obvious to
Mrs. Hardy, and they were much interested in the details he gave of
the old vestments preserved in the Domkirke and the ancient folding
pictures at the altar, the date of which is 1479, but the pictures are
Italian and older.

"The old church tradition," said the Pastor, "is that the patron
saint, St. Clement, after suffering martyrdom, came ashore after
floating about the sea for eleven hundred years, bound to a ship's
anchor, which circumstance is delineated in more than one place in the
Domkirke. One of the stories of the Domkirke is recorded on a stone,"
continued the Pastor. "It is the figure of a woman with a hole in her
left breast. She was shot by a rejected lover, as she went to the
Domkirke to attend the church service of the times. The stone must
have been once in an horizontal position, as it is worn as if it had
been placed at the entrance of the Domkirke, as is believed to be the
case, and much trodden on."

"Are there more stories connected with the Domkirke?" asked
Mrs. Hardy.

"Yes, many," replied the Pastor. "There is the story of the monks
being killed by bricks falling on them from the arched roof, when
playing cards behind the altar. There is also the story of a large
hunting horn, which is said to be now preserved in one of our museums,
which horn was used at the evening service before Good Friday, in
catholic times. It was blown through a hole in the roof of the
Domkirke, and the words shouted as loud as possible, 'Evig forbandet
vaere, Judas' (For ever may Judas be accursed). There is also the
monument of Laurids Ebbesen who had been unfaithful to the king, who,
when he visited the Domkirke, cut the nose off the monumental figure
with his sword. The ship which is hung up in the Domkirke, is a model
which Peter the Great of Russia had made in France, and it was sent by
a French vessel from Toulon, which was wrecked at the Scaw, or, as we
call it, Skagen. The cargo of the ship was sold by auction. A seaman
of Aarhus bought the model, which is that of a ship of war with
seventy-four cannon, and gave it to the Domkirke, at Whitsun