Chapter 14 THE COMET AND BROTHER ALBURTUS

Night's curtains now are closing

Round half a world reposing

In calm and holy trust;

All seems one vast, still chamber,

Where weary hearts remember

No more the sorrows of the dust.

-Mathias Claudius.

ardly had Peniel been completed and dedicated, when there occurred an event that wrought great consternation, not only in our lit