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"So am I," Laodice said wearily

"Jerusaleht out a response

"No? Yet all Judea is going to Jerusaleitives?"

Moed "You will be fed there;

Titus will not come there We are poor but we are happy--and we are

safe"

Laodice thanked him so inertly that he sensed her disinterest, and

while he sat looking at her, searching his heart for so kind to

say, she put out her hand iet thy heresy," she said "If thou livest in

Pella, Pella is indeed happy"

He laughed with a flush stealing up under the brown of his cheeks A

faint light came into Laodice's eyes as she looked at hi that was intensely compli fellowship Before

Mo happily

"Who art thou?" Laodice asked

"They call me Joseph, son of Thomas"

After a silence she said softly, "I am not at liberty to tell my name" She remembered the secrecy of

Philadelphus' mission "Yet perchance if the God of my fathers prosper

me and my husband, I htened and he drew in a sharp breath, but almost

instantly the animation died and he looked at her sorrowfully It

seeaze But

he was a Christian; he could not believe and hope as she hoped