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92 could you, being a Child, say that? Is there anything much too difficult for a Child." "Command, sire," returned Jivananda, "how we might secure them." "To secure them I shall go to visit the shrines to-night," said Satyananda, "Till I come back do not take up any serious work. But preserve in the meantime the unity of The Children, get them their food and clothing and replenish their coffers for our mother's conquests. This is what I charge you two with."

"I do not see," said Bhavananda, "how you could get these things by visiting the shrines. It would create a lot of noise to have guns and ammunition bought and sent to this distance. Besides, where could you get so many as we want? Who will be selling them, or who again will bring them down?" "We could not do the work by buying them at a distant place," said Satyananda, "I shall send mechanics and you will have to make them here."

"What! here in this Abbey?" exclaimed Jivananda.

"That can never be," Satyananda replied; "I have been thinking about it long and God has put an opportunity in our way to-day. You said God was averse to us, I see that He is entirely in our favour."

"Where shall we have the workshop?" asked Bhavananda.

S. At Padachinha.

J. How's that? How could you do it in Padachinha?

S. If it was not for this what else was there for my