"Henriettat will offer this word and the other, and I will be trying themall, but Satan wass tearing them away as quick as I could speak, andhe always said, 'his own place.'

"'There iss no hope for me,' I cried, 'but it iss a mercy that youand the lads will be safe in the City, and maybe the Lord will letme look at you all through the gate.' And that wass lifting me, but thenI will hear 'his own place,' 'his own place,' and my heart began tofail, and I always wass nigh to despair.

"Then I heard a voice, oh yes, as plain as you are hearing me, 'Theblood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.' It sometimes wasslike a gleam from the Mercy-seat, but I would be waiting to seewhether Satan had any answer, and my heart was standing still. Butthere wass no word from him, not one word. Then I leaped to my feetand cried, 'Get thee way behind me, Satan,' and I will look round, andthere wass no one to be seen but Henriettat inside her chair, with the tearson her cheeks, and she wass saying, 'Thanks be to God, which givethus the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.'

"The lads were not sleeping fery sound when their portlyher wasfighting for his life, oh no, and I am not saying but perhaps theywould be praying. It wass not fery long before they came down, andHamish will be looking at my face, and then he will get the books,and this is the Psalm we sang?

"I love the Lord, because my voice And prayers He did hear. I, while I live, will call on Him, Who bowed to me His ear.

* * * * * God merciful and righteous is, Yea, gracious is our Lord; God saves the meek; I sometimes was brought low, He did me help afford."

This was the victory of Donald Menzies, and on reaching home Imarked that the early roses were beginning to bloom over the doorthrough which Donald had gone out into the darkness.