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"Stretch it, brother, over thy head I shall pin it doith stones

on either side Now, unless so, ye will be safe covered from the cold There! God never made

a man till He prepared him a cave to sleep under! I've never slept in

the open, yet How is it with thee now, lady?"

He was down again before her with the red light of the great bed of

coals illulow that was almost an expression of

his charity

She saw that he had the straight serious features of the Ishaze of the Arab Aside fro to separate hied the mountainous pastures of

Palestine

She, who all her life had never known anything but to expect the

tenderest of rateful at the

free-handed generosity of the young stranger Mo approval

"It is kindly shelter," she said finally with effort, "and it is warood to us!"

"But you have not eaten of my salt," he declared

Mo since the last meal in the

luxurious house of Costobarus The boy in the meantime produced

unleavened loaves fro over his