bowed and crossed himself zealously, tried to feel touched when

the song about the cherubims was being sung, and when the

children received communion he lifted one of them, and held him

up to the priest with his own hands.

The great majority of the prisoners believed that there lay a

mystic power in these gilt images, these vestments, candles,

cups, crosses, and this repetition of incomprehensible words,

"Jesu sweetest" and "have mercy"--a power through which might be