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saints in the convent were ever perplexed to
account for the necessity of the Adventurer,
with his love of gold and his cruel ambition, -
if they ever thought of that mysterious rooting
of good in evil which continually confuses the
mind and even drives it into contented sinning.
 Sometimes, indeed, the Adventurer was so
 good as to bring the Missionary with him. It
 was as chaplain to the Illustrious Captain-Gen-
 eral Pedro Menendes de Aviles" that Francisco
 Lopez de Mendoza Grajales appeared in the
 New World to cure men's souls. Yet one can
 easily see, in the sincere simplicity of his letters,
 how truly he could sympathize with the real
 object of the expedition. He speaks of having
 been offered a chaplaincy at Porto Rico, where
 they had stopped for a time, and," says he, I
 should have received a peso for every Mass said,
 and I should have had plenty to do all the year
 round. But I feared to accept, lest I should be
 talked about as the others were; and then, it is'
 not a city where one is likely to receive promo-
 tion; and besides, I wanted to see if, by refus-
ing a personal benefit for the love of Jesus, He