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 heard the priest pass with the ciborium from communicant to communicant.

—Corpus Domini nostri.—

Could it be? He knelt there sinless and timid: and he would hold upon his tongue the host and God would enter his purified body.

—''In vitam eternam. Amen.''—

Another life! A life of grace and virtue and happiness! It was true. It was not a dream from which he would wake. The past was past.

—Corpus Domini nostri.—

The ciborium had come to him.