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[Margeson <res...@ka...>]

Ager to get out in the wicked world again, my son," said the delightful
old Superior, as he sat by the only fire, sipping a glass of mulled port, when John came in from shoveling
snow outside. "I, therefore,
merely to try you, shall make you gatekeeper. The keys of the monastery front

door are under the door-mat in my cell, but

I am a sound sleeper." He smiled seraphically, and winked casually

as he sipped his port. "We will call
it, if you please--a penance." John threw himself in an agony of remorse and shame at the feet of
the Superior. "It isn't of myself I'm thinking," he confessed
wildly, "but of that poor young man, Brother Bones, in the next cell to mine. He is a living skeleton, has got only one
lung and an atrophied brain. A night out might do him good."
The Father Superior frowned.
"Do you know who he is?" "No." "His real name is Jones. Why
do you start? You have heard it before?" John had started, thinking of Jinny Jones, Golly's deserted and self-immolated friend. "It is an uncommon name," he stammered--"for a monastery, I mean." "He is or was an uncommon man!" said the Superior gravely. "But," he added resignedly, "we cannot pick
and choose our company here. Most of us have done something and have our own reasons
for this retreat. Brother Polygamus escaped here from the pe