And Alwin whispered, "Thou hast been wounded in the sore fight, for I can feel Thy blood flowing upon me!"
"That was the price at which I rescued thee," answered the Deliverer, "and thou shalt find when we come into the Light that the Blood of the King's Son worketh marvels for thee."
"Art Thou the King's Son?" asked Edred as they moved forward from this cavern of Death.
"Didst thou not know?" answered his Deliverer with a radiant smile, "no one else is 'Mighty to save.'"
When Agnes ceased the relation of her dream, she turned over the leaves of her Bible which lay on her knee, her brothers and sisters waiting to see if there were any more of the story.
At last she looked up, and said earnestly, "You all like allegories, but they can only teach one side of a truth at once, and the Lord Jesus has done so much more than anything I can say for us. I have not told you half that Red page means, but you can seek it out for yourselves, dears. Think of all the love which brought Him down to redeem us, and what it cost Him, and let the Red page of the 'Wordless Book' impress this upon your hearts, never to be forgotten, 'Without shedding of blood is no remission;' 'God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us.'"
