— XXI —THE RECTOR IS TROUBLED.
The Reverend Thomas Campion, Rector of Baynham, was a man of simple piety and used to deal with simple issues. A country parson, possessed of sufficient private means, his life had been uneventful. The simple annals of the poor, at least that section of the poor with whom he was brought into parochial contact, presented, so far as his experience went, but few outstanding features.
What had happened to Alan Thurston in his own garden? That was a problem which probed his usually placid nature to its deepest depths. For the first time he gained some personal insight into the meaning of the psalmist’s words, “Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.” All night long he cried unto the Lord. Not out loud; it made his trouble harder to bear that he had to
