to hers and kissed him.

"Where is Tom?" she asked presently, beginning for the first time to
take an interest in the world again.

"Tom has gone to Oakdene for a day or two," said Brian. "He is going to
be Donovan's private secretary."

"How glad I am!" she said. "Dear old Tom, he does so deserve to be
happy!"

"They want you to go there as soon as you are well enough to be moved,"
said Brian.

"I should like that," she said with a touch of her old eagerness of
manner. "I want to get well quickly; there is so much work for us to do
you know. Oh, Brian! I feel that there is work which HE would wish me to
do, and I'm so glad, so glad to be left to do it!"

Brian thought of the enormous impetus given to the cause of secularism
by Raeburn's martyrdom. The momentary triumph of bigotry and intolerance
had, as in all other ages, been followed by this inevitable consequence
a dead loss to the persecuting side. Would people at length learn the
lesson? Would the reign of justice at length dawn? Would the majority
at length believe that the All Father needs not to be supported by
persecuting laws and unjust restrictions?

Yet it was not these thoughts which brought the tears to his eyes it was
the rapture caused by Erica's words.

"My darling will live, and is glad to live!" he thought. "Who could bear
witness to the truth so well? Who be so sweet a reconciler?"

"Why, Brian! Brian!" exclaimed Erica as the great drops fell on her hand
lying clasped in his.

And there was that in tone and look and touch which made Brian more than
content.

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