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X. THE BISHOP PUTS ON HIS BIRETTA XX. HOLLY AND MISTLETOE XXI. SO MUCH FOR SERAPHINE XXII. WHAT BROTHER PHILIP HAD TO TELL XXIII. THE MIDNIGHT ARRIVAL XXIV. THE POPE'S MANDATE XXV. MARY ANTONY RECEIVES THE BISHOP XXVI. LOVE NEVER FAILETH XXVII. THE WOMAN AND HER CONSCIENCE XXVIII. THE WHITE STONE XXIX. THE VISION OF MARY ANTONY XXX. THE HARDER

PART XXXI. THE CALL OF THE CURLEW

XXXII. A GREAT RECOVERY AND RESTORATION XXXIII. MARY ANTONY HOLDS THE PORT XXXIV. MORA DE NORELLE XXXV. IN THE ARBOUR OF GOLDEN ROSES XXXVI. STRONG TO ACT; ABLE TO ENDURE XXXVII. WHAT MOTHER SUB-PRIORESS KNEW XXXVIII. THE BISHOP KEEPS VIGIL XXXIX. THE "SPLENDID KNIGHT" XL. THE HEART OF A NUN XLI. WHAT THE BISHOP REMEMBERED XLII. THE WARNING XLIII. MORA MOUNTS TO THE BATTLEMENTS XLIV. "I LOVE THEE" XLV. THE SONG OF THE THRUSH XLVI. "HOW SHALL I LET THEE GO?" XLVII. THE BISHOP is TAKEN UNAWARES XLVIII. A STRANGE CHANCE XLIX. TWICE DECEIVED L. THE SILVER SHIELD LI. TWO NOBLE HEARTS GO DIFFERENT WAYS LII. THE ANGEL-CHILD LIII. ON THE HOLY MOUNT LIV. THE UNSEEN PRESENCE LV. THE HEART OF A WOMAN LVI. THE TRUE VISION LVII. "I CHOOSE TO RIDE ALONE" LVIII. THE WARRIOR HEART LIX. THE MADONNA IN THE HOME LX. THE CONVENT BELL

The White Ladies of Worcester

CHAPTER I

THE SUBTERRANEAN WAY

The slanting rays of afternoon sunshine, pouring through stone arches, lay in broad, golden bands, upon the flags of the Convent cloister.

The old lay-sister, Mary Antony, stepped from the cool shade of the cell passage and, blinking at the sunshine, shuffled slowly to her appointed post at the top of the crypt steps, up which would shortly pass the silent procession of nuns returning from Vespers.

Daily they went, and daily they returned, by the underground way, a passage over a mile in length, leading from the Nunnery of the White Ladies at Whytstone in Claines,

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