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 heretic, a descendant of those heretics on whom, as a warning to others, a severe punishment was inflicted in Bydžov. She began to tell the horrible story, but I would not hear it all. Stopping her, I said that the condemned were perhaps more innocent than their judges.”

“O young man, you have spoken the truth! In their innocence they passed into the other world—victims to human prejudice and malignity, martyrs to their holy faith,” exclaimed Andrew, and suspicion again flashed from his eyes at the harper. “Go!” he added; “go quickly and report what I have said; you need not go far; tell it to the stewardess, and she will see that investigation is made; and if the nephew is found to have adopted his aunt’s heresies, you may have the pleasure of adding a stick to his funeral-pyre.”

“It would not be suprisingsurprising [sic] if I should wish to punish you,” the harper replied; “you are adding insult to insult.”

“Yes; I insult you, I pain, you, and I will hurt you still more, because I do not trust