Such as have been under our training from seven to ten years have had no acquaintance with the Church’s terrors, and it was among these that I found my fifty-two. As a next move, I paid a private visit to that old cave of Merlin’s — not the small one — the big one — ”

“Yes, the one where we secretly established our first great electric plant when I was projecting a miracle.”

“Just so. And as that miracle hadn’t become necessary then, I thought it might be a good idea to utilize the plant now.

I’ve provisioned the cave for a siege — ”

“A good idea, a first-rate idea.”

“I think so. I placed four of my boys there as a guard —