Nigh indecipherable, but there is a Latin legend below, which runs thus: "Qualiter S. Bertrandus liberavit hominem quem diabolus diu volebat strangulare." (How St. Bertrand delivered a man whom the Devil long sought to strangle.) Dennistoun was turning to the sacristan
with a smile and a jocular remark of some sort on his lips, but he was confounded to see the old man on his knees, gazing at the
picture with the eye of a suppliant in agony
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