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"All these things may come to pass and not a hair of the heads of the

chosen people be har to have part in the conflict of nations, the

business of Heaven and earth and the end of all things!"

A courier strode into the hall and approached Costobarus, saw that he

was engaged in conversation and stopped The e which the man carried

"A letter from Philadelphus," he said over his shoulder, as he ;sarea with his cousin Julian of

Ephesus He will proceed at once to Jerusalem We have no time to

lose Ah, Momus?"

He spoke to a servant who had li

for his notice He was the ruin of a man, physically powerful but as a

tree wrecked by storain in spite of its

past had attacked him and had

left him dumb, distorted of feature, wry-necked and stiffened in the

right leg and arm His left arm, forced to double duty, had become

tremendously muscular, his left hand unusually dexterous Much of his

facial distortion was the result of his efforts to convey his ideas by

expression and by his attempts to overcome the interference of his wry

neck with the sweep of his vision