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The Maccabee rode on, unconscious of Julian's critical gaze The shtly, now very faint The incident in

the hills had not made hi which was latent in hi which he had never felt

before, but which held a sweet fanized

Julian was intensely disgusted and disappointed But there was still a

sensation of shock on his shoulder where the Maccabee's iron hand had

rested and his famous caution stood him in stead at this moment when a

quarrel with such intense and executive earnestness in his coht prove disastrous If quarrel they ues east of theainst defeat much less likely to be suffered fro for a pretext ever since

they had left Cæsarea, but this one, suddenly opened to him, startled

hiht

Whatever er to himself It

were better, he believed, to allay suspicion

He spoke

"How far is it to Jerusales"

"Then if we continue, we shall approach the gates after nightfall"

"We shall not continue," Philadelphus remarked "We shall halt at

Emmaus"

"Do you think it would be better for us to camp here in the hills

rather than to stop without the walls of Jerusalearrison of Titus and await the opening of the

Gates?" Julian asked after thought

"We shall wait in Emmaus," the Maccabee repeated, his soul too filled

with dreae in his companion's ed hi before I can ride in the