Gerard Montagu:

Muriel blushed , and then seemed a little frig htened . "Do you not believe me ?" " I don't know , " she said . " Do you not know what it means V " No . "

" It meant you were to marry me . " " How silly you are , Arthur , " Muriel said , and then she Avent to the other end of the yacht and joined the others .

Father Foy On Secret Societies.

FATHER FOY ON SECRET SOCIETIES .

"T HEIR true origin and real secrets was the subject of the Rev . Father Foy ' s second lecture on Secret Societies at the Church of St . Thomas of Canierbmy , on Tuesday evening last . Tha church Avas again fairly -Avell filled , although the audience was not quite so numerous as on

the previous occasion . The rev . gentleman , in opening , said he wished to begin Avith a caution that he made last time , which was , that he' had not come to this place to speak on any subject of politicsor anything that any

, particular statesman had said , neither should he he influenced by any political question of the present time . Then , too , in whatever Avay he brought charges against secret societies , he Avished it to be

understood that he did not in that way necessarily include his countrymen in England j that was to say he made no charge against them , though if they belonged to secret societies they might be accused by some of being mixed up or associated with societies addicted to iniquities . No doubt there

Avere a great number of Englishmen Avho Avould rather be cut to pieces than do anything unworthy or ignoble , but then all of them were not saints , and possibly there mi ght be some Avho , from a depraved state of mindor weakness or other causesin an

, , unhappy moment might be draAvn into the societ y of those Avho Avould . draAV them aAvay to such terrible excesses as he had before had occasion to refer to . He must also say that he had received a very kind anonymous letter in which certain questions

were put to him , and the writer seemed to suppose that he had failed in shoAving how the secret societies of the last century , and particularly the French revolution , were the same as those at the present time , aud that rites were practised by the latter

similar to those productive of so much evil in former days . If , however , he read the report in the Observer , he would see that Monseigneur Dupanloup , whom he quoted at length in his previous lecture , had spoken of occurences in 1860 and 1870 ,

thus bringing them to within a very recent date . There Avas one inaccuracy he fell into before , and that was respecting the date of Illuminism . He mentioned 1748 as the time Avhereas it actually Avas in 1778 although no doubt Weishaulpt ( its founder ) with his singularly sinister , evil mind , must have meditated on it from his childhood . In

the next place , with reference to what the letter had reminded him of , he had to ask if secret societies in England were like those on the Continent 1 He made no charge against the former , but apparently they had some connection or other Avith the societies abroadand one proof of this was

, that at the time the Prince of Wales was made Grand Master , two years ago , there AVIIS an address Avhich came from the Grand Orient of Italy , in Avhich they certainly claimed to have a special connection with English Freemasonry . That address

commenced thus : — "Liberty , Equality , Fraternity" ( the motto of the French Revolution and of the Commune ) . NOAV , he quoted to them last time some terrible things Avhich had occured in Italy under

the secret societies , and the charges which Avere made against them by such a distinguished writer as Bresciani , and he asked whether English Freemasons , in receiving these Italians , Avished to be connected and identified with them , or to disavoAv them ? Not loug after thisat

, the installation of a UCAV lodge in the Alexandra Palace , it Avas admitted that 10 , 000 lodges of the Grand Orient of Ital y had been aggregated to the English Societies . Mazzini Avas formerly the head of those lodges - and he Avished to ask if

, the English Freemasons disavoAved such brethren 1 Further than that—and he was sorry to say it , though he cared not how far it went , as it Avas stated in the House of Commons by Mr . Maguire , the Member