Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

CHAPTER XVII.
How it happened that Dupin and Bcdini got to be priest" - The
cause 'of their subsequent promotion-Mrs. Foresti dragged before
the Inquisition-Suffers death for reading and concealing inter-
dicted books.
FROM boyhood to manhood, steeped in crime-constantly
devising mischief, and plotting schemes of
devilment, Dupin arid Bedini naturally became fit
instruments for any undertaking that required a sacrifice
of honor, principle and conscience. Such men
readily find favor in the eyes of tyrants, when they
need tools for servile and despicable purposes.
A Jesuit priest of some sagacity, by chance making
the acquaintance of Dupin, about the time he had
arrived at the age of manhood, thought he discovered
in him admirable talent for subserving the interests of
the holy order, and immediately laid before him inducements
to enter the priesthood, and take the
Jesuits' oath. To yield to these solicitations, Dupin's
habits of idleness inclined him, so he was suddenly
metamorphosed into a priest, of the Jesuit stamp.
Now unwilling to be separated from his companion in
wickedness, and also desiring to have a tool, while
he himself, consented to become such in the hands of
others, he opened the way in a very short time for
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