ur sakes, you musU ICLOW ше. Л am going UU 1 you."

her Campian yielded; and it was high time, for y had he attained his hiding-place, into which he ccompanied by two other priests, when the apostate -entered the house, preceded by the agents of the .. He immediately instituted a thorough search cellar to attic. He questioned the servants, sounded oors, the walls, and the ceilings; but no Jesuit was found. Night approached, and he took his departbut returned again the following day, and renewed search, without any better result. The traitor was us. He desisted from further investigation, and deined upon quitting the place. In descending the s, he uttered a last bitter imprecation, and dashed nst the wall the instrument which he had used to be the doors and hiding-places of the house. The - gave back a hollow sound, whereupon the soldiers. e ordered to break it in, the apostate himself striking ith maddened frenzy. The edifice appeared to tremand, a few stones being removed from their original ition, fell to the ground, causing an aperture, from which mund Campian made his appearance, with his hands eyes raised toward heaven. Two secular priests were his side, for they had accompanied him to his hidingace, and would now share his fate. Elliot at once comanded the Queen's agents to seize the three Papist priests, ad he had them incarcerated provisionally in the prison E the nearest town. Soon afterward, orders were issued Elizabeth for the removal of the Jesuit to London. The 22d of July was a Saturday, and at an early hour

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edictions against the Church and the the good Father, who was a perfect st they heaped imprecations and abuse. A that some one had propagated the repo dangerous conspirator.

The Jesuit, ever gentle and humble, time, grave and dignified, was to be seen bound like a felon, and placed on a tall tied behind his back, his feet fastened toge while upon his head was placed a hat, to v a placard, with the inscription, in large le Campian, a seditious Jesuit." The good at the ignorant rabble who surrounded Almighty God to forgive them, for that the they did. But suddenly the fury of the tracted in another direction. It was no oner; it is no more that innocent victi tyranny that the crowd insulted and exec traitor apostate, George Elliot! He had ness and gloat over the humiliation of the in bygone times, he had called by the en Father, and whom he had so recently bet for a few pieces of gold. Knowing the the apostle was to pass, he had stopped an to add his invectives to those of the enra suddenly a loud voice was distinctly heard, crying out:

"Behold the man who betrayed him!" "Who is it?"

ne now took any more notice of Father Campian. y seemed to desire was to wreak their vengeance traitor Elliot, who, on his part, had little expected such maledictions against himself.*

arriving at the Tower, Edmund Campian was handed the governor of that prison, Lord Opton, who had aced in a subterranean dungeon, which was so small e could not stand upright, and so contracted that he not stretch his limbs. Thus cramped up, deprived ht, air, and the possibility of even stretching his limbs, he remained imprisoned during nine long days. the night of the 2d of August, the agents of the n made their appearance in his dungeon, and, having -ed him to follow them, conducted him to the palace obert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. The Queen's favoras accompanied by the Earl of Bedford and two of Secretaries of State. Edmund Campian, pale and ciated from excessive suffering, his hands still tied, eared before these high and mighty personages with oble and lofty bearing, which commanded their reet. The Earl of Leicester commenced by asking him question:

With what mission were you and Father Parsons insted by the Pope ?"

The only reward he received for his treachery was a few pieces gold, sent him by Lord Walsingham, who requested that he might be further importuned by him. Forsaken by all his former ends, and becoming an object of contempt and disgust to all, orge Elliot fell into such a low state of misery and wretchedness at he was literally eaten up by vermin.

etrating eye of Elizabeth.

"Do you believe that I am really Qu asked she.

Father Campian made an affirmativ did not utter a single word. The Queen emphasizing every word:

"Well, I offer you life, liberty, wealt you will serve me.”

"I shall ever be your subject," re guished Jesuit; "but, while I am an E first of all, a Christian-a Catholic !'

Elizabeth retired, without uttering Her avowed end in the persecution of t the punishment of conspirators. She w the odium that her cruel tyranny woul name, and she sought to justify it by p It was computed that, from the 15th Jul August of the preceding year, 1580, fifty lics had been arrested and imprisoned, a their property, by confiscation, for refusi Protestant services and sermons. In the was the only crime attributed to them, by the Queen saw a conspiracy against her li

Father Campian was conveyed back to the Tower. A few days afterward, he w torture-chamber, where the magistrates pu questions to him, which they had previous) writing:

whom, have you celebrated mass?

Who are those

What are the sins

ou have converted to Popery? e whose confessions you have heard? What is inion of the Bull of Pius V?"*

he implements of torture were there, and the exers were beside them. Edmund Campian had ned a perfect silence, and waited impassibly until gistrates had exhausted their list of questions, e said to them, with the same serenity and dignity he had maintained throughout:

aong the questions you have just propounded to ere are several which an honest man must leave vered, and some which a priest must not underbut there is one which my conscience allows me swer, and I will do so. My treatise of the 'Ten ns' was sent by me to Father Johnson and Thomas a."

is was, in fact, no answer at all. Johnson and d being in prison, it was well known that they had wed this book. Orders were immediately given to Father Campian on the rack. The Jesuit underthe torture without even a murmur of complaint. at days afterward, he was subjected to a repetition he same torment, which he bore with the same pace, fortitude, and serenity. When they considered. sufficiently exhausted by excessive suffering, the isters contended that the Jesuit had not been put to test, for they knew that the Queen desired either his

*By this Bull, Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth.