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though of the colour of true blood," and he clearly 

 thinks this satisfactory evidence that it was 

 blood. 



The same night, another servant had a vision, in 

 which still more imperative orders for the removal 

 of the relics were given ; and, from that time forth, 

 " not a single night passed without one, two, or 

 even three of our companions receiving revelations 

 in dreams that the bodies of the saints were to be 

 transferred from that place to another." At last a 

 priest, Hi Id f rid, saw, in a dream, a venerable 

 white-haired man in a priest's vestments, who 

 bitterly reproached Eginhard for not obeying the 

 repeated orders of the saints ; and, upon this, the 

 journey was commenced. Why Eginhard delayed 

 obedience to these repeated visions so long does 

 not appear. He does not say so, in so many words, 

 but the general tenor of the narrative leads one to 

 suppose that Mulinheim (afterwards Seligenstadt) 

 is the " solitary place " in which he had built the 

 church which awaited dedication. In that case, 

 all the people about him would know that he 

 desired that the* saints should go there. If a 

 glimmering of secular sense led him to be a little 

 suspicious about the real cause of the unanimity of 

 the visionary beings who manifested themselves to 

 his entourage, in favour of moving on, he does- not 

 say so. 



At the end of the first day's journey, the precious 

 relics were deposited in the church of St. Martin, 



