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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE 183 the brown habit of penance with a cord of purity girt about him. His eyes looked once into the eyes of the man with the dead soul. They were the eyes of the one to mhom he had left his legacy of hate and wealth and evil his own and his only son. Shuddering the man with the dead soul awoke from his dream, and behold, he was lying in the desert where the gold tempted him from out of the great rocks and the diamonds shone in the sunlight. He looked at them not at all, but straightway he went to where good men sang the "Mi serere' ' and were clad in brown robes and as he went it came to pass that his dead soul leaped into the joy of a new resurrection. GOD'S WAYS. Mi&&dSa -M) M fTx S&r IGHT and day the racking cough that knows no cure, fell on the air! My heart ached for the two rnen, and J went to them on my rounds, and tried to comfort them. They were isolated cases in a great hospital; men doomedl for the "White Plague" had marked them for its prey. One was naturally a merry, light-hearted fellow, a non-Catholic; in him the progress of the disease was more rapid; the other, was born of Catholic parents, had been reared in the faith, but had fallen 3way from his religion, and had not en tered a church for fifteen years. They had met in the hospi tal, and because they were consumptives, had fraternized, so to say, and when they were removed from the other patients, were satisfied in each other's company. The non-Catholic j) man seemed interested in everything he saw in the hospital, and even accompanied the patients to the chapel for mass, but the man who was reared a Catholic, who had made his .j first Communion, sullenly refused every opportunity of grace. His isolation from the other patients made him irritable at i first and his fellow-sufferer had a hard time to make him sa- tisfied with the necessity. This man, Cox, forced a smile