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There was no need for the pair left behind to await a realization of

all that the loss

creature can run when spurred by desperation, and the other, laedly, as an old deterh side of

the slope, leaped into the roadway and ran irrationally after the

fugitive mounted upon a camel, fleeter than the fastest horse

Mo road would

out-distance him to her peril He shouted inarticulately after her,

but her reply cah with desperation and terror

"The corner-stone of Israel! All his treasure! God's portion, lost,

lost!"

She was out of his sight The sudden barking of dogs told hiroaning with alarhts flash out; heard

shouts, and out of the confusion distinguished Laodice's, vehe of the town curs beca and, by

the time Mo

east out of the village after the flying feet of the girl, in pursuit

of the robber

For unmeasured time, while the moon crossed its meridian and sloped

down the west, the search continued Momus did not overtake the

fleet-footed party that preceded hilers that lost interest