“With your foster-children?” asked Eumenes.

“Yes.  It was indeed Selene’s most earnest wish to be baptized by you, but as a year of probation is required—­”

“I will perform the rite to-morrow morning.”

“To-morrow, Father?”

“Yes, Sister, in all confidence.  She buried the old man in the waves of the sea, and before we were her teachers she had gone through the school and discipline of life.  While she was yet a heathen she had taken up her cross and proved herself as faithful as though she were a child of the Lord.  All that was lacking to her—­Faith, Love and Hope—­she has found under your roof.  I thank thee for this soul thou hast found Sister, in the name of the Lord.”

“Not I, not I,” said the widow.  “Her heart was frozen, but it is not I but the innocent faith of the blind child that has melted it.”

“She owes her salvation to him and to you,” replied the bishop, “and they both shall be baptized together.  We will give the lovely boy the name of the fairest of the disciples, and call him John.  Selene for the future, if she herself likes it, shall be known as Martha.”

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