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"Lady, I heard in the synagogue at Emmaus to-day the exclusion that is

laid upon you for seven days This is a hungry country and no man

should waste food I shall enter Jerusalem to-morrow by daybreak; we,

my companion and I, have no further use for these They are Milesian

ducks, fattened on nuts And this is Falernian--Roman I pray you,

allow me to leave the for her reply the Maccabee passed fowls and skin into

the hands of Momus who stood near

"Sir," she answered unreadily, with her s each

other before her and her eyes veiled, "I thank you It was not the

least of my anxieties hoe should provide ourselves with food under

prohibition and in a country perilous ar You have made

to-ued, seizing upon a discussion for an excuse

to remain, "but the next day, and the next five days, what shall you

do?"

"Perchance," she said gravely, "God will send us another stranger of a

generous heart, with more than he needs for hiht, would such beauty as hers go hungry as

long as there were hearts in the wilderness as iht of another than hi for her did notns of his interest in her identity

"Is there more that I can do for you?" he asked "Have you friends in