net. Poor frail, loving heart! she meant to save him, and
he knew it. He wrote calmly underneath--

"I do acknowledge these meetings.--H. Garnett." [Gunpowder Plot Book,
article 212.]

Even her very gaolers dealt pitifully with Anne Vaux. "This
gentlewoman," said Lord Salisbury to Garnet, "hath harboured you these
twelve years last past, and seems to speak for you in her confessions; I
think she would sacrifice herself for you to do you good, and you
likewise for her."

Garnet made no answer.

Letters continued to pass between the cells. A remarkable one was sent
to Anne on the 2nd of April, written principally in orange-juice, on the
question which she had submitted to Garnet as to her living abroad after
her release.

"Concerning the disposal of yourself, I give you leave to go over to
them. The vow of obedience ceaseth, being made to the Superior of this
Mission: you may, upon deliberation, make it to some there. If you like
to stay here, then I exempt you, till a Superior be appointed, whom you
may acquaint: but tell him that you made your vow yourself, and then
told me; and that I limited certain conditions, as that _you are not
bound to sin [Note 1] except you be commanded in virtute obedientiae_.
We may accept no vows, but men may make them as they list, and we after
give directions accordingly. Mr Hall dreamed that the General...
provided two fair tabernacles or seats for us: and this he dreamed
twice." [Gunpowder Plot Book, article 245.]

The sentence in italics is terrible. No Protestant ever penned a darker
indictment against Popery.

Anne Vaux received this letter, for she answered it at once. She speaks
of her "vow of poverty," and adds--

"Mr Haule his dreame had been a great cumfert, if at the fute of the
throne there had bin a place for me. God and you know my unworthenes.--
Yours and not my own, Anne Vaux." [Gunpowder Plot Book, article 246.]

On the following day, Garnet wrote again--eight closely covered pages,
in his own hand throughout. I append a few extracts from this pathetic
letter.

"My very loving and most dear Sister,--I will say what I think it best
for you to do, when it please God to set you at liberty. If you can
stay in England, and enjoy the use of the Sacraments as heretofore, it
would be best: and then I wish that you and your sister live as before
in a house of common repair of the Society, or where the Superior of the
Mission shall ordinarily remain: or i