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 mouth you to no one your mission. Recollect that this is the Sabbath. Still, it is not sinning to look for a lost sheep on the Sabbath, but let it not be said that a bad sampler comes from Danyrefail.”

That Sabbath morning Pedr hailed a man who was crossing the moor to Capel Sion.

“Man bach,” he said to him, “do you hurry quickly now, and tell them in Sion to come up the mountain, because this day the Big Creator is manifesting Himself. For this hour, man bach, you are a messenger of the white little Jesus.”

The man laughed the news to those with whom he fell in. He laughed it to Sadrach the Large.

“The old cuckoo must be sent to the House of the Mad,” said Sadrach.

Sadrach walked as far as the gates of Capel Sion, then he turned back and went up to the moor. As he neared the hut,