“‘The Wise Men of the East who came to worship at the cradle at Bethlehem.’
“‘Ask him how he got them,’ said Willie.
“‘The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, recovered them and sent them to Milan. When Frederick Barbarossa took the city of Milan, he received them among the spoils and sent them to Cologne. The names of the Magi were Gaspar, Melchior, Balthazar.’
“‘Do you believe the legend?’ asked Willie.
“‘I do not know; we shall find things harder than this to believe, I fancy, as we go on.’
“And we did.
ST. MARTIN’S CHURCH, COLOGNE.
“Leaving the tomb,—a pile of jewels,—we went out, and near the [!-- illustration --] [!-- blank page --] outskirts of the city found the famous Church of Skulls,—a gilded ossuary, associated with a mediæval legend. It was full of cabinets of bones, said to be those of eleven thousand virgins slain for their faith by the Huns.